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...found quite a following here at Harvard. In the past week, many students have taken a break from their normal study routines to head out and enjoy the new movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Tim B. Lautz ’02, a Harry Potter enthusiast who saw the movie at 9:30 a.m. on opening day and has since viewed it a second time, opines, “the movie did as good a job adapting the material as possible, although the books cannot be matched. There is just a lot of stuff that...
...desire to share the magic of this creativity?especially with his littlest fans?led to Miyazaki's latest production: the Studio Ghibli Museum. Here the other side of Miyazaki is on full display: the childlike enthusiast, bursting with inventiveness. The multicolored building pokes out like the stub of a rainbow from a wooded corner of a vast Tokyo park. A towering metal sculpture of a robot character from his film Castle in the Sky stands sentry. Inside, a handcrafted fan whirs like an airplane propeller from the glass ceiling of a four-story atrium. Elf-size doors lead to secret...
...Kong, Cambridge: In a last-minute desperate attempt, maritime enthusiast Craig B. Phillips made one last jibe. “Hey Baby? You must be tired ‘cuz you been racing through my mind all day. Racing your boat, that...
...easiest thing to find online. "Movies are my passion," writes Lisa Skrzyniarz, 32, on her crazy4cinema.com site, which registered an imposing 40,000 hits one month last year. "I love all kinds, as long as it?s good." Like most web critics, she is at heart an enthusiast, and her site is her hobby. Skrzyniarz is no terror of Tinseltown; she has kind, if not poetic, things to say about all eight of the latest films on her site - and this in a summer when films liked "America?s Sweethearts" (which she gives 2-1/2 stars) and "Cats & Dogs...
...John Carluccio roams the aisles of Madison Square Garden with a camera crew, scouting the most enthusiastic Knicks fans in the crowd to display on the JumboTron. Away from the Garden, it's Carluccio, 32, who's the enthusiast. For the past 15 years, he has devoted himself to understanding and publicizing the art of scratch DJs, or turntablists, those men and women who make music through frenzied, seemingly chaotic scratches on vinyl. He has directed a documentary series called Battle Sounds that appeared in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, showing the sophisticated techniques behind the music; has organized concerts...