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Dennis Quaid remembers the Alamo. "I used to play the Battle of San Jacinto as a kid," says the Houston-born star, above center, with Spanish actor JORDI MOLLA, right. Quaid, with the aid of some happenin' muttonchops and the largest standing movie set in North America (50-plus acres), plays General Sam Houston in The Alamo, due out Christmas Day. Directed by fellow Texan John Lee Hancock, who teamed up with Quaid in 2002's The Rookie, this account of the Lone Star State's battle for independence from Mexico shares little with the 1960 John Wayne film...
Christopher Paolini is just like any other kid: he wrote a medieval fantasy novel full of dragons, dwarfs and Old Norse at 17, his homeschooler parents self-published it, and novelist Carl Hiaasen's young stepson read the book while fly-fishing. But then things took an odd turn. Hiaasen's publisher Knopf bought Eragon, as the book is titled, and Paolini's next two for six figures. Now Eragon is outselling four of the five Harry Potter books. Paolini, 19, may go on to college or, he says, "take a vacation." That is, if he can find a place...
...Pledge) as well as a poignant short film on 9/11--who finances his projects with acting gigs. "I was doing Super-8 movies in high school, and I loved that," he says. "But the idea that somebody was going to put 5 or 10 million dollars in a kid's pocket to direct a movie was ridiculous. 'Where are the adults?' So acting was how to get into this thing that I loved. And once I got involved as an actor I got very taken with...
...nothing behind them. You can't quite like him--there's not enough of him there to like--but you can't look away. The book ends with a heart-stopping photo of Sammy at age 5, blacked up, ready for his killer impression, his Al Jolson: a black kid impersonating a white guy in blackface. Can you blame him for being screwed up? Race, money, love, applause--for little Sammy they were all mixed up from the start. As hard as he worked, and nobody worked harder, he never got them straight. --By Lev Grossman
...crux of the problem today: an unhappy marriage between snotty gentleman’s club and modern day pimp hole-in-the-wall. The irony is that many graduates like my grandfather still financially support these clubs. It’s kind of like giving milk money to a kid, who then goes and buys a handle when you’re not looking. Graduates remain largely in the dark as to how different the clubs have become and what lengths club members go to in order to mask their actions from the trustees...