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...coordinators. Redd hasn’t been the only Harvard woman with the winning combination of brains and beauty. Beginning in August 1957 as “The 10 Best-Dressed College Girls in America,” the contest has attracted a plethora of Harvard’s finest. One of the 1957 winners, Radcliffe graduate Priscilla Bowden ’61, was the first woman accepted to the editorial staff of The Crimson. Glamour quoted a Princeton man describing Bowden as “an Ivy intellectual...but so pretty, it doesn’t matter...
Moonlight Mile's finest performance is by a virtual unknown, Ellen Pompeo, as a bereft soul who becomes Gyllenhaal's love interest. Forging a deep bond with the actor and the audience, Pompeo is lovely, funny, intense--star quality in the making. Now let's see if she and Hollywood know what to do with it. --By Richard Corliss
...that vastly lower personnel costs and the absence of labor union restrictions mean a day of shooting in Beijing costs as little as half of what it would cost in Hollywood. Equally critical, choosing to work in China made it easier?financially and logistically?to assemble the region's finest martial artists. Yuen Wo-ping?a master known to international audiences for his wire work on recent martial arts blockbusters Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Matrix, was hired to choreograph the fight scenes, reviving material that appeared on his r?sum? 20 years ago. Venerable Japanese screen idol Sonny Chiba...
...labored to rescue stranded citizens and keep the Vltava River, which winds through the city, from destroying architectural treasures. They succeeded, but only partly. The barriers they erected saved the famous Old Town, but the river broke through the opposite bank, inundating Mala Strana--one of the world's finest baroque preserves. Water also tore through Cesky Krumlov, leaving a reeking trail of flotsam and sludge in the town's elegant Renaissance buildings...
...Sept. 11 as well as the Boss has. For decades he has written music from a uniquely American perspective that can somehow haunt our souls and lift us up at the same time. If we knew Bruce for his words alone, he would be considered one of America's finest poets. But set to music, those words have the power to make generations of Americans think, hope and live better lives. The Rising is Springsteen's effort to try through his art to make us respect, remember and somehow overcome a tragic American event. TOM VILLANE Manasquan...