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...federal prison in Otisville, NY. (Aside: why is a 33-year-old woman, even one as talented as Rachel Griffiths, playing mother to a man five years older than her?) Everything seems to be right for Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLOW explodes onto the Big Screen | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Flame-haired Lola (Franka Potente) has 20 minutes to get the 100,000 deutsche marks that will save her thug boyfriend's life. So she goes running through Berlin in search of the loot. Could she take a cab, borrow a car, buy a bike? Yes, but in this breathless adventure logic is less important than a desperate momentum in both the story and the film's style. Telling the plot three times, with cunning variations, Tykwer mixes pixilated photos, split screens, cartooning, the works. Invigorating and annoying, Lola could use a dose of Ritalin. Best to take this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Run, Lola, Run | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...itself for the clash of two football titans-Notre Dame v. Tulane. From his mourners' bench at South Bend, Ind., Coach Frank Leahy cried, "We'll be outweighed for the first time in two years." On the Tulane campus in New Orleans, where Coach Henry Frnka (pronounced franka) had been holding secret practice for weeks, there was impressive silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Murder, Inc. | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Fuller '19 and P. Means '17, respectively. Vanda, daughter of Maleski, Miss Helenka Adamowska Aanna, Vanda's nurse, Miss Dorothy Thorndike Magda Yuzefova, betrothed to Yuzef, Miss Nora Collidge Basia, Yanova, wife of Yan, Miss Molly Hill Manka, betrothed to Stach, Miss Rosanna Fiske Wikta, Miss Eleanor Bremer Franka, Miss Madeleine Beals Zosia, child of Basia, Miss Frances Doliber

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "SPIRIT OF POLAND" TO BE GIVEN IN BOSTON FRIDAY | 3/21/1917 | See Source »

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