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...poor performance of Grindhouse, the double feature from two fanboy deities, directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, shows that fanboy love can get you only so far. Plenty of people heard about the movie--a three-hour '70s-exploitation-style gorefest--but decided it was an inside joke they weren't going to get. "There's this perception that the geeks have inherited the earth," says Smith, "but if they had, Grindhouse would have grossed $100 million. It plays to a marginalized culture." A marginalized culture with a big stick. When Disney tried to market the sweetly sad Bridge...
...school. The goal was to see if they could make him laugh. "I didn't know him," says Moore. "We'd try to talk to him, but he'd barely respond ... so one day my roommate challenged himself to get him to talk to us. We told him a joke." That day, they actually extracted a chuckle. But to other students, to know him was to fear...
...you’re serious?” asked Jamie Weir, former sports information director for the team, when she heard of the plan. “This isn’t a joke? You know, he’s going to enjoy this. He even used to make his goalies look bad in practice—what do you think he?...
...Chantilly suggested during their sophomore year that they ought to try to bring Cho out of his funk. "We'd try to talk to him. but he'd barely respond. So one day my roommate challenged himself to get him to talk to us. We told him a joke." Cho did laugh that day, according to the student...
...what people bring to them. Nearing her debut, Jones describes her work on the play as an intense, rewarding experience—one she’s certain will be just as rewarding for the audience.Why should you come to the play? First, it’s hilarious. No joke, there isn’t a funnier show going up at Harvard this semester. Number two, it’s free, so you don’t have an excuse for being broke. Third, the actors are phenomenal. They’re all playing multiple roles, four or five characters...