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...bearing freshmen arrive at the Yard each fall prepared for the worst. With Harvard Student Agencies offering water coolers for your dorm room at $119 a pop, it’s easy for neurotic Type-A’s to worry that their water will be lead-filled and grosser-tasting than Gordon’s vodka mixed with warm OJ. “It tastes grosser than my water at home,” says Colleen L. Lenahan ’10 of the Yard’s H2O. “I drink bottled water for sure...
...meaning it could be attended by any kid with an adult in tow (assuming the local theater management enforced the rating, which is not always the case). The disparity between the gentle realism of The Cooler and the grotesque brutality of Scary Movie, and the knowledge that the grosser film had received the softer ruling, spurred Bello to petition the MPAA for a ratings change - as she puts it, "to go in and fight for my pubic hair...
...expectations for the film. Some were mocking, but the box office doesn't discriminate between money spent ironically and earnestly, and New Line decided to ride the wave rather than be crushed by it. Five days of reshoots were ordered so that Ellis could make the movie much, much grosser. "Kids between 17 and 25 really want to see a little T. and A., so there's a nice Mile High Club scene," says Ellis. "And if you're going to do an R-rated film, you have to go for the violence and the gore. So now every time...
...brave new digital world, form is defining content. Because the toys are so cool, directors make movies to exploit their technical possibilities. That's why James Cameron, after doing Titanic, the all-time top grosser, stopped making feature films to shoot underwater documentaries with his favorite new toy, the 3-D camera. Going back to his old camera, he told ComingSoon.net "just seemed like going back from a car to a bicycle." Battle Angel, his first feature since 1997, will be shown in 3-D. (And yes, with the funny glasses.) Lucas is planning to release all six Star Wars...
...John Grisham thriller. Read the novel, compress the exciting first half, rewrite the rest, keep it moving. Well, the films of The Firm and The Pelican Brief maunder and mope as if Grisham were Graham Greene. Not that it makes any difference. The Firm was 1993's third biggest grosser; Pelican is a cool Christmas...