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...immediately turned to the incredibly talented and super-cute Scott T. Duquette ’05 to draw us pop-inspired renderings of our dedicated extended family. Scott has provided us week in and week out with amazing art delivered promptly to our inbox, and should be on the hero??€™s page as well. We’re also especially beholden to former FM associate editor and current Crimson President, Amit R. Paley ’04, whose quiet support, constant nagging and unintentional comic relief help keep us on our toes. Check him out on page five...
Tony’s tasty restaurant reviews and his candid endpapers on being an Anglo-American hybrid would earn him a hero??€™s welcome from the magazine on their own. Yet the Crimson’s staff director gets extra kudos for directing FM’s staff to meet his exacting standards as proofer. FM’s favourite Brit never fails to catch and criticise a spelling mistake, but is always eager to relieve us of a few aluminium cans of American beer and keep the crew in good humour. The staff were always keen...
...seafaring. The most enjoyable moments are the quietest, particularly the scenes in which Aubrey and Maturin play classical music together in the Captain’s cabin. After scenes of wartime devastation, these scenes are beautiful. Scenes like these are often just a device, intended to demonstrate the hero??€™s more complex nature: he is more than a brute, the screenwriters hope to demonstrate. In this case, however, Crowe handles these scenes skillfully enough that they don’t seem contrived; Aubrey becomes a real man rather than the caricature so common in Bruckheimer knock-off action...
Though in the past he may have drawn a hero??€™s welcome on college campuses, he now receives sharp criticism from some for his affiliation with Sharon...
...first female action hero in the form of Weaver’s Ripley. After Ripley attempts to quarantine the explorers in the Alien’s opening scene, she and a professional rival nearly have a physical altercation. The scene pits Ridley—the first major female action hero??€”in a catfight that reveals the lack of respect for her authority held by the rest of her crew. In the movie’s final scenes, Ridley discovers another character half alive and part of Brett’s body trapped by the alien in a sort...