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...question, this is one wet action movie. It sets a world's record for so-called tough guys shedding tears. Harry Osborn (James Franco) gets weepie over his father's death, and enraged at his belief that Peter was responsible for it; he vents his rage in the supervillain guise of the New Goblin. Before being transformed into the irradiated Sandman, Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), the recidivist hoodlum - and murderer of Peter's sainted uncle - goes all soft and moist as he clutches his young daughter's locket. Peter has a jewelry fetish too: his aunt has given...
...Shaun (played the excellent actor Thomas Turgoose) is a solitary 12 year-old who, when not being teased about his oversized bell-bottoms, has taken to wandering by himself on a deserted beach ever since the death of his father in the Falklands War. He meets Woody - the friendly head of a local skinhead gang who take Shaun under their wing - and suddenly life starts looking up. Shaun collects friends and protectors, has fun smashing up derelict houses and even scores an older girlfriend...
...keep him out of office for long, and in 1994, Barry was reelected to a fourth mayoral term by the city’s overwhelmingly Democratic population. Lifelong liberals, my parents were for once divided. My mother exercised caution and voted Republican. In a fit of blind loyalty, my father stood behind Barry.I was 10 when Barry made his triumphant return to the mayor’s office, and I was more than a little confused. Washington is a place of politics and, theoretically, accountability. Men in suits arrive, and if they don’t do their jobs well...
...Alan E. Symonds ’55, the program’s founder, who passed away earlier this school year.Musico’s parents have been supportive of his heavy involvement in theater, he says. Once, after returning home from school, he was surprised to find that his father had placed framed posters from all of Musico’s Harvard shows on the staircase wall.“It was really cute, though a little creepy,” he says. Says Brown of Musico, “He’s one of the best music directors...
...Beta Kappa, and a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship, which provides students with funding to travel abroad after graduation. Ogunnaike grew up in a musical family: his mother studied traditional Yoruba music from West Africa in college and for her master’s degree; his father plays the guitar and sings; and a close family friend, whom he calls an uncle, drums.Ogunnaike says it was natural for him to start making music of his own.“I used to sit around and watch my uncle all the time, so I’ve always been banging...