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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...take on a period piece in The Other Boleyn Girl. What is your favorite time in history? -Nikki Barrett, York, PA.I'm really interested in 1920s Berlin. I read this great book by Amos Elon called The Pity of It All. It's about Jewish life in Berlin right before the war. The whole environment of the salons and all this culture-there was a real openness and freedom. It's scary to think the response to that was this incredible fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natalie Portman | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...make mistakes all the time. It's more about how I want to portray women and myself. I played a stripper in Closer, and now it sickens me how many scripts I get where the woman is a stripper or a prostitute. I also have this sort of good-girl image-it's such a virgin-whore thing with female roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natalie Portman | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

What was it like working with Scarlett Johansson in your new movie The Other Boleyn Girl? -Michael Nassar, College Park, Md.They never put two young women together in a movie where both parts are really strong. Usually, if two women are of the same age in a movie, one is the lead and the other is the best friend. It was amazing to get to work with her. I admire Scarlet's work so much. She's an incredible actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Natalie Portman | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...result is a warm, upbeat slice of street life set in the largely Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights. Miranda, the narrator, plays the proprietor of a bodega in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, introducing and interacting with a dozen characters, from the college girl who disappoints her parents by dropping out of Stanford to the aging neighborhood matriarch who wins $96,000 after buying a lottery ticket. Miranda's songs glide effortlessly between mellow hip-hop, salsa dance numbers and Latin-flavored arias that express the frustrations, dreams and community pride in Miranda's family-friendly world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Rent | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...first chapter, entitled “Vanishing Acts,” deals in disappearances under some form or another. Odd and mysterious women spiral towards their disappearance with inevitable momentum as a whimsical voice looks back onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates. In an attempt to retain this fading popularity, she laughs herself to death in front of the narrator?...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Laughter' Dreams Surreally | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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