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...begrudgingly learns to accept the fact that other countries make great movies too, the British Academy has fully embraced the idea that all cinema is world cinema and that some of the best films are made in places where English is the foreign language. So France's La Vie En Rose and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Germany's The Lives of Others, and The Kite Runner, with most of its dialogue in Farsi, competed against the likes of Atonement, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood for a whole slew of awards instead of being...
...Which is how The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, an adaptation of stroke victim Jean-Dominique Bauby's autobiography, beat out the screen version of Ian McEwan's Atonement for best adapted screenplay. And how newcomer Marion Cotillard - who played Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose - nabbed the best actress award that was all but already on Julie Christie's mantelpiece. The upset has British awards-watchers seething and might have left Christie a little peeved, too: on Monday morning she was quoted in the free daily Metro calling the BAFTAs "a night for the media to fill gaps...
Sophomore guard Alek Blankenau tallied 14 minutes, hitting four three-pointers en route to a game-high 14 points—all in the second half—and freshman Kyle Fitzgerald came off the bench to notch 10 points and seven rebounds...
...fast breaks and layups for the first-place Crimson early Saturday night. Realizing its own height disadvantage, Brown started four guards against Harvard’s traditional three-guard set. While Rollins had her way against the undersized Bears—she had nine first-frame points en route to a game-high 15-point performance—the Crimson, eager to create mismatches in the low post, committed nine turnovers by halftime. “In the first half we tried so hard to thread the needle and make those quick shots that we didn’t really...
...with every Kyle Koncz three-pointer in the first half (all five of them—he finished with six and 24 points), and every Lincoln Gunn long ball in the second half (four, en route to 17 points), the Tigers were set to make Harvard their second victim of the young season...