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...explain-it-all science show on TV and a Government contract to build a particularly unsavory laser-powered weapon. His students do all the hard work, while he glides, snakelike, through the corridors of power. Among his drones are Mitch (Gabe Jarret), an innocent 15-year-old prodigy; Kent (Robert Prescott), who is teacher's pet, half toady, half Gestapo agent; and a case Hathaway has burned out (Jonathan Gries) until the others recruit him for the climactic revenge plot...
This begins with wiring up Kent so that he thinks he is hearing a heaven-sent voice and ends with Hathaway gloriously hoist on his own laser beam. The path between those two points leads through farcical situations, but the Animal House spirit is not present in this academic grove. Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more...
...don’t want my name to be associated with lunatics who vomit when people come to recruit students to help protect our country,” Andrew L. Kent ’07 wrote in an e-mail to the Dems open e-mail list, dems-talk...
Although it drives Coulter crazy, even friends sometimes say her public and private personas differ. Kent Brownridge, 63, general manager of Wenner Media and a longtime Democrat who used to work for George McGovern, says, "You couldn't find a nicer friend" than Coulter. But, he adds, "I think she has a professional point of view or a shtick or whatever ... Ann has perfected a thing she does on TV because she is outrageous and funny. That's her business, public commentator...
...Queen Elizabeth II, so it is reported, she is known as "our Val," after the Valkyries of German legend; other members of the British royal family are said to refer to her as "Princess Pushy." And in the British press last week the 6-ft.-tall Princess Michael of Kent, wife of the Queen's first cousin, was at the center of controversy because of the discovery by the tabloid Daily Mirror that the princess's late father, Baron Gnther von Reibnitz, was both a Nazi and a major in Hitler's notorious SS. The princess, who was born...