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There are half a dozen good reasons to choose film studies as a concentration (pre-professional planning, a desire to grapple with certain artworks that you find inescapably important), and some not so good ones (a C in your orgo class, a desire to épater les ’rents...

Author: By J.d. Connor, | Title: Now Playing...Film Studies | 9/15/2004 | See Source »

...actors playing dozens of roles in ?Stones in My Pockets? three years back) incarnates Guillaume as a piggy-faced toady who can?t help admiring his victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical ?Les Miserables?) with a puffed-out chest that shows awareness of his charismatic statesmanship, relishes danger, even the threat of a spy in his bosom: ?The merest possibility that Gunther is not what he seems makes him infinitely more tolerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: London Bridges the World | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...global animation industry, what comes to mind is the stunning computer-graphic magic of Pixar or the irony-laced wit of The Simpsons, not an obscure little outfit in sub-Saharan Africa. But Pictoon - a cartoon company formed in 1998 by Sauvalie, a French-Cameroonian graduate of the renowned Les Gobelins animation school in Paris, and Senegalese businesswoman Aida Ndiaye, once the local agent for Xerox office machinery - wants to make Africa a cartoon hub for the world. Pictoon aims to win work from Europe and the U.S. that is traditionally farmed out to animation studios in Asia, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing a Whole New Image for Africa | 8/15/2004 | See Source »

...annual general meeting of the Malarrpa Ministries, an evangelical outreach that services the Aboriginal communities of Laverton, 400 km north of here, and Coonanna, 180 km east, and the town of Norseman, 190 km to the south. "God bless us through the heat, dust and flies," says Norseman deacon Les Schulz. A further 200 km south of Norseman is Esperance. Here Anglican reverend Doug Murray recently returned from one of his regular 2,000-km runs to the South Australian border and back, ministering to roadhouses and sheep stations. "They're nearly all Catholic," he says of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...Gloria holds her nose as her head is dunked underwater. "Our sister has risen from the grave of old ways!" exclaims Les Schulz from the stage. But no sooner than a lone hallelujah is heard, Gloria is whisked backstage in a white dressing gown, to emerge through a side door a few minutes later wearing a smart gray suit. Tears spill down her cheeks. "I've prayed all week that the Lord would give me strength, and he has," she tells the congregation. "I feel like a new lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading the Word | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

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