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...kingdom at the start of World War II. He has cast it with young actors, many of whom have done little Shakespeare and less musical theater. So the Clueless Alicia Silverstone is the princess; Scream's Matthew Lillard and Face/Off's Alessandro Nivola join Branagh and the gifted Adrian Lester to complete a quartet of severely dimpled swains. The assumption--here as in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You--is that singing and dancing are not so much skills as attitudes. Anyone can do it. Just open your mouth, and pick up your feet. Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Branagh Faces the Music | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...Beatles' 1965 film "Help!" director Richard Lester sent the Liverpool boys down a ski slope with no more instruction than a push and a smiling, bald nod. They were lucky, after all, as all they had to do was ski a bit, fall over and writhe on the ground in rhythm to "Ticket to Ride...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homeless Skiing Utilizes What It Does Have | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...here--can take much more. People in the richest countries consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, and as poorer nations push to catch up, pressure on the planet will keep growing. "An ecologist looks at the population size relative to the carrying capacity of Earth," says Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "Looking at it that way, things are much worse than we expected them to be 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Crunch | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...Espace, wrote that he wanted an English pen pal. Like many writers, Mathieu never actually stated that he was trying to track down the actress. "I usually respond to those and tell them that I figured out their motive and that I am not [Portman]," Natalie A. Lester '01 says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Natalie's Here, There, and Everywhere... | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...encompassing topic of Star Wars sometimes overshadows the beauty of the braided Queen. Natalie A. Lester '01 contacted one stalker's Internet service provider when he wouldn't stop writing her. "One time there was this little boy really obsessed with Star Wars, not [with] her, and he added me to his 'Star Wars fan club' e-mail list," Lester remembers. "[He] kept sending me all his info on the movies until I begged him to take me off his list...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Natalie's Here, There, and Everywhere... | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

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