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Enter Emily. The roommate. You would think she was normal to look at her. Maybe "a little short for a stormtrooper." (Just kidding, Em.) She likes Star Wars. She likes The Empire Strikes Back. She likes Return of the Jedi. But the first words out of her month: "I can't believe you're going on opening day. Not only are you going to see it, you're going to see it on opening day. I have to say, I've just lost a little respect...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Finding the Force | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...been called (the name itsel implies childishness). But just look at the sorts of movies that major studios were pouring big bucks into in the '60s and '70s--quirky art movies like Robert Altmans Nashville or dark dramas like Martin Scorceses Mean Streets. Even the shoot-em-ups were intellectual. If you don't believe me, check out Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. Sure, there had been spectacle movies before Star Wars, but never one so openly connected to the world of childhood. From The Ten Commandments to Spartacus, there was an earnestness--a high mindedness, you might...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Culture of the Force | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...impossible to say. But five days later, he and Klebold started shooting. Fittingly, they had already computer-modeled their crime. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks Internet hate groups, discovered last week in its archives a copy of Harris' website with a version of the bloody shoot-'em-up video game Doom he had customized. In Harris' version there are two shooters, each with extra weapons and unlimited ammunition, and the people they encounter can't fight back. When Harris and Klebold went into Columbine on April 20, says an Internet investigator associated with the Wiesenthal Center, "they were playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold: Portrait Of A Deadly Bond | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

NAME: Wayne "Slayed 'em in Vegas" Newton D.O.B.: 4/3/42 OCCUPATION: smartly clad crooner BEST PUNCH: Locked Orlando out of the Branson, Mo., theater at which they both performed and that they once co-owned, alleging that Orlando owed him $2 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

NAME: Tony "Slayed 'em in Vegas" Orlando D.O.B.: 4/3/44 OCCUPATION: smartly clad crooner BEST PUNCH: Sued Newton, his friend of 30 years, for $15 million, saying the lockout cost him revenue from canceled shows and damaged his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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