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...They encouraged workshops to be done anywhere,” Aaron says. “A workshop was not a full-fledged production of something, it was an experiment. We used to joke in those days that it was an experiment in terror...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staged Renaissance | 6/1/2007 | See Source »

...just been through the celebrity muck of Cannes, who gets it the worst? CLOONEY: There's no question, it's Brad. PITT: Well, exponentially, with us together ... CLOONEY: But even before he was with [Angelina Jolie], we used to chum the water with him. PITT: This is not a joke. They used to send me out to take the hits. CLOONEY: We were at the airport in Italy. So I walk off the plane, and it's "Hey, Giorgio!" And I go, "Look! Brad Pitt!" and they're gone. DAMON: You described it once as "People were stepping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ocean's Thirteen, the Interview | 5/30/2007 | See Source »

...between audience and actors. I must say, it's as boring to type out criticism of that kind as it probably is to read it, since some close variant of it could be written week-in, week-out every summer movie season. It's tempting to conclude with a joke about the title: Maybe they should have called it Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End. But no, in the movie's epilogue Jack Sparrow is seen setting forth in a dinghy, chasing his pirate ship, which has been mysteriously purloined. It is, shall we say, an open-ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wits' End | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...many years, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and I would meet as we stroll through the Harvard Yard. On a number of occasions, we were joined by former Dean of Students, Archie C. Epps III, and Senior Admissions Officer, David L. Evans. Invariably, Gomes would joke that, “we must be very cautious now. There are four of us standing here, and to many that means a race riot is about to take place. We can expect the police to be here any moment.” To this we would always laugh uproariously...

Author: By S. ALLEN Counter | Title: Dealing With the ‘Quad Incident’ | 5/25/2007 | See Source »

...single most compelling feature of a Thompson candidacy would be his magnetism. A natural storyteller, he speaks with a relaxed cadence and unhurried confidence, peppering his remarks with language such as "fella" and "bad guys," pausing expertly to make a point, relish an applause line, set up a joke. He is most effective when he makes fun of the superficial glamour of Los Angeles and the tangled hypocrisy of D.C. In a recent appearance, he supplied a cheeky anecdote about a fellow Senator coming up to him after he gave his first speech on the Senate floor, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Role for Fred Thompson | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

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