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Given, then, the unexpected opportunity to redefine himself when The O.C. went off the air in February, Brody has been carefully waiting for good scripts with a character close enough to himself to be believable and not, at 27, another teenager. Instead of taking the big parts in horror movies or teen comedies that TV stars are always offered, he took small roles in Thank You for Smoking and Mr. & Mrs. Smith and then the lead in In the Land of Women. He wants to prove himself movieworthy, within limits. "I'm not going to rob banks and smoke crack...
...four decades he directed a range of horror films (Black Christmas), stories of teen angst (Porky's) and bad musicals (Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone). But the cinematic gift Bob Clark will be remembered for is A Christmas Story, a warm and playful tale of the holiday-time highs and lows of a '40s-era boy intent on receiving an "official Red Ryder carbine-action, 200-shot, range-model air rifle." Clark, whose cult classic is now shown annually around the clock on TBS, was 67, and was killed, along with his son Ariel, 22, when a drunken driver struck...
...drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense horror of Amin's genocidal rule...
...three areas of change that, while they certainly don’t resolve the entirety of student mental health issues, would have an immediate and long-term positive impact. A first area of reform is the administration of the academic environment, and specifically the Ad Board. It is a horror for the vulnerable students faced with its inaccessible, administrator-only, bureaucracy that can render dealing with mental health issues a requisite spectacle for mercy rather than a genuine healing experience. A second area of reform is the health services administration—its provost-led executive council unacceptably lacks student...
...should first note that, as far as theses go, underclassmen should treat the hype skeptically: Writing a senior thesis is not the most difficult thing in history. Most horror stories come from terrible procrastinators who didn’t start any serious writing until January. So my bitterness on the subject stems not from any latent trauma or caffeine-induced health problems...