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...lyrics). A new breed of younger artists has also been cast in plum roles, which by tradition were always reserved for veteran performers. Prominent among the fresh faces is Zhang himself. The onetime rapper played Emperor Minghuang in Palace of Eternal Youth, opposite Shen Yili, 32, who has won fame for her willowy dance technique...
What about Holliday? Sure, he might actually be a robot disguised as a human being, but who didn’t love Johnny 5 of “Short Circuit” fame? And then there’s Francis, who looks like he’s 12. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad, but hey, 12 was a pretty good...
...scores shy of the record held by Carl Morris ’03. His five catches broke a tie with Terrence Patterson ’00 for second place on Harvard’s all-time receptions list...Murphy was indudcted on Saturday evening into the Athletics Hall of Fame at his alma mater, Springfield College. Murphy has 116 wins in 21 seasons as a head coach.—Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...
...players even get along with Denver's snippy media, which have long branded the team's primary owners--brothers Dick and Charlie Monfort, of Monfort Beef fame--as dunces. The Rockies were born in 1993 after 30 years of snubs from baseball's pooh-bahs, who were concerned about the metro region's slight population, lousy stadium, capricious weather and high altitude. When baseball finally caved, its reward came swiftly: the Rockies' opening day drew 80,227 to old Mile High Stadium--still the largest single-game turnout in baseball history--and first-year attendance totaled 4.5 million. These were...
...original movie, directed by Hollywood veteran Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Andrew was played by Laurence Olivier, widely considered the century's greatest actor; and Michael Caine, who came to movie fame as the charming cad Alfie, was Milo. In a promising symmetry, this Sleuth has Caine playing the older man and Jude Law, who starred in a 2004 sequel to Alfie, as his young rival...