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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Nathans was a different kind of leader, says Christina S. Griffith, one of Nathans' first assistant deans...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nathans' FDO: High Turnover and a Heavy Hand | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...wasn't necessarily the pal, buddy, jump-in-the-middle-of-things type dean," Griffith says. With Moses, "there was an ease of communication that wasn't present with Ibby. She has a certain formality that may have conveyed to kids that 'she doesn't know me,' or 'she doesn't know what being a freshman in college is like...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nathans' FDO: High Turnover and a Heavy Hand | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...Politically Incorrect," Jon Stewart of Comedy Central and former Washington Post and TIME mag man Carl Bernstein (now running Evote)as well as editor Frank Lalli of George magazine, which cohosted the fund-raiser along with the Creative Coalition and some no-name types like George Clooney, Melanie Griffith, Goldie Hawn, Samuel L. Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, John Travolta and Harvey Weinstein. Whew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Party Favors: Star Power to the People | 8/18/2000 | See Source »

...make a comedy about a radical group that kidnaps a rich young woman and brainwashes her into joining their cause. And, in a piquant move, cast the real Patty Hearst in a small role. But since this is a movie about movies--spoiled film fatale Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) is taken hostage by a cinematic liberation army led by a dreamy buff who calls himself Cecil B. DeMented (Stephen Dorff)--an air of fantasy permeates the entire jape, detoxifying it. There's a geniality to gags about ratings ("Hey, hey, M.P.A.A., how many movies did you censor today?") and Robin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Satirist Nabs Movie Queen! | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...stars give their roles a dizzy spin. Dorff's Cecil sports a manic gleam that could be dementia or star quality (if there's a difference), and Griffith is aces as the Hollywood harridan; when she sees her super-stretch limo, in white, she snarls, "Do I look like a coke dealer?" Maybe Waters is ironizing his anger at the movie brats who have stolen his attitude but don't understand his spirit. If so, the master is giving the kids a lesson here. Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Satirist Nabs Movie Queen! | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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