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Acting--"the desire to communicate," she says--is her passion, but it was also clearly her salvation. She grew up poor, in public housing in Nottingham, in the north of England, with eight brothers and sisters, and was shuffled in and out of foster homes. She left school at 13, and though she refuses to talk about those rough days--"I don't want my future in acting to be about my past"--her chance to participate in an acting workshop from ages 11 to 16 was her big break into that future...
...setting is again the Baltimore, Md., of Levinson's youth, source of Diner, Tin Men and Avalon. This time his alter ego is a smart, sweet-souled teenager named Ben (Ben Foster) who, having lived all his life in a Jewish enclave, is astonished to discover that most of the world is not, after all, Jewish. That's particularly true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves...
...Bennett's band North House's album Two Stories was recorded and mixed at QSS, as was A. Ryan Leslie's '98 A Song of my Own. Campus groups like the Cliffe Notes and Glee Club Lite have also recorded in the studio in recent years. In order to foster use by the entire Harvard community, campus groups are charged $15 an hour for recording time with an engineer, in comparison with rates of $40 and up for similar services elsewhere...
Although she started only five games this year, Urbanic looks to have an important place in Wheaton's plans for next year, with the loss of Ivy League Player of the Year Jess Larson and back Gina Foster...
Freshman year was a good learning experience for her, and with Larson and Foster leaving, she looks to gain significant playing time next season...