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...character of a high-school basketball star carried Updike through the first leg of a precocious literary career. Flick Webb became the ex-basketball player in an early poem that remains one of his most anthologized, and, more famously, Rabbit Angstrom the hero of a tetrology of novels that has become the cornerstone of his oeuvre...
...When Jun decided she was ready to return to comedy, so was Kwak. He'd written the script for Windstruck, a tale of a romance between a goofy high-school teacher and a sassy female police officer, with Jun in mind. The script?and Jun's likely involvement?caught the attention of Kong, who was looking for a way into South Korea's ballooning film industry, which now captures more than 50% of the country's box office. Kong thought that a broad South Korean comedy like Windstruck, with an international star like Jun, had a chance...
...American college applicants, the SAT exam is a) a stressful three hours of bubbling, b) a flawed test that often measures socioeconomic standing instead of aptitude, c) just another confusing set of numbers that colleges insist high-school seniors turn in or d) all of the above. The answer most high- school juniors and sophomores would probably give to this one is d, and they wouldn’t be wrong. Indeed, the stress and confusion is just going to get worse as the College Board introduces their new SAT next January, containing a written section similar...
...Inside," a drama about a federal agent working undercover as a high-school student. It's "21 Jump Street" meets... um... well, "21 Jump Street...
...Finally, for all of you who ever watched a WB soap and wondered, "Gee, I wonder what these characters will look like 40 years from now?" there's "Jack and Bobby." The story of two brothers (with Christine Lahti as their mom), it twists its typical high-school stories by revealing that the older brother will become President of the U.S. in 2040, and it's interspersed with documentary-style "interviews" with actors playing historians and cabinet members...