Word: girling
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...Underworld and Lord of the Hotpants, Hades (Tom R. Compton ’09), schemes against his nerdy nephew, arranging a competition between Hugh and a really, really ridiculously good-looking statue, resurrected for the purpose. The literal deification of the dork and the lovelorn trials of geeky girl and resident accountant Roseanne (Derek S. Mueller ’10) make for a show that joins frat boys and math puns. Writers Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Megan L. Amram ’10 opted to limit the offensive one-liners in the all-male Parthenon...
...Barmak seeks to show the human side of tragedy. In Osama, about a young girl in Taliban-era Kabul who poses as a boy in order to provide for her widowed mother, he highlights the plight of women under that draconian regime. His awareness of the human side of history was honed early on. At age 5 he was transfixed by a showing of Lawrence of Arabia at his hometown cinema hall in Kabul. He haunted movie theaters after that, taping together remnants of filmstrips to make his own films, which he would then show to his friends in tiny...
...final days of Hitler and his cohorts in the tight quarters of the Führer's underground bomb shelter. Long before then, his first big commercial success in Germany was the 1981 film We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, the story of - another shocker - a 12-year-old girl in West Berlin who gets hooked on drugs and becomes a prostitute to support her heroin habit...
...what the royals do day to day, which appears to be meeting a lot of people with whom they have nothing in common and trying to find something to talk about, sometimes with excruciating results. Perhaps that's its true purpose. If it can puncture even one little girl's dream of being a princess, it's done us all a service...
...sing. Girl's got pipes. She does sing just a little bit in the episode where she plays a backup singer. I'd love her to sing more, but apparently this isn't just my playground, I do have to tell responsible stories. She can't sing in every episode. Dammit...