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...Whale Rider went on to earn a respectable $20 million at the U.S. box office as well as an Oscar nomination for its young star, Keisha Castle-Hughes. Even if a festival goer doesn't like a movie at Toronto, it's possible to leave politely, says Jeffrey Wells, who blogs about movies on Hollywood-Elsewhere.com. "When you leave at Cannes, the seats are made in such a way that there's kind of a bang sound. Bang! A person's going," Wells says. Thumbs down, in other words...
...Battling a World of Worry Jeffrey Kluger's story on obsessive compulsive disorder was superb, especially in detailing possible new treatments and emphasizing the deleterious effects of this malady on the family [Aug. 20]. Many people with ocd fear the rigors of treatment even though they have watched their family life deteriorate as a result of their condition. A method to persuade ocd sufferers to seek relief is needed, as they would if they got a diagnosis of a life-threatening disease. Ferdinand K. Levy, Atlanta...
...complete." Distributions from the endowment to the University's operating budget hit a record-setting $1 billion in the 2007 fiscal year, according to a University press release. Last month, the University lost $350 million when Sowood Capital, a hedge fund started in 2004 by former HMC manager Jeffrey B. Larson, reported huge losses. Harvard had initially invested at least $500 million with the fund, but the most recent figures do not factor in some of the downfalls...
...you’ve ever heard of Jeffrey Blitz, it’s probably in connection with his work as writer and director of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Spellbound,” the gripping tale of eight spelling whiz kids as they make their way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since that critically acclaimed debut, Blitz has worked on a new project—the narrative fiction film “Rocket Science,” opening nationwide...
Still flush from the success of his critically acclaimed documentary “Spellbound,” writer and director Jeffrey Blitz turns from the spelling bee to high school debate in the quirky and dark drama-comedy “Rocket Science...