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Despite being repeatedly rejected from Archibald McLeish’s poetry workshop, he was able to take a fiction-writing class with Albert Guerard, where he drafted a short story about a former basketball player named Flick...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...character of a high-school basketball star carried Updike through the first leg of a precocious literary career. Flick Webb became the ex-basketball player in an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, Rabbit Angstrom the hero of a tetrology of novels that has become the cornerstone of his oeuvre...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...Flick Webb is the subject of an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, the figure of the ex-basketball player evolved into Rabbit Angstrom, the hero of a tetrology of novels that remains the cornerstone of Updike’s oeuvre...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Poon to Pulitzer, Updike Runs On | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

Note to Rose: whenever you're in doubt of your abilities, just take out a copy of Goddess. Nowhere else is her loopy sadness and extraterrestrial beauty put to better effect. In Law's underrated art-house flick, Byrne plays a damaged blind girl who lures a young Tokyo man across the Outback; her hair squirrel red, the color of the DS-model Citro?n he has journeyed to Australia to buy. Even before the cameras rolled, Byrne surprised her director by coming into rehearsals "not learning to be blind, but already like a blind person," Law recalls. With downcast eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goddess of Troy | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

With a movie called Be Cool, the cast had better, well, be cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Look: Who's That With Andre? | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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