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...ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed father (Paul Bettany) and black housekeeper, Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), in a small, dry, dusty town in South Carolina during the height of the Civil Rights movement. The relationship between the three is all too familiar: Lily??s father is abusive and distant while Rosaleen acts as a surrogate parent. After a violent clash with several townspeople over new rights granted by the Civil Rights Act, Rosaleen ends up in the hospital. Lily, who is in desperate need of escape from her father, hatches a scheme...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...stale daytime sentry who patrolled her school. With great gusto, Lily accented the plaid skirt she is forced to wear every day with slick black strips of duct tape, and, concluding that she had accomplished her goal with great flair and even greater bravery, she called it a night.If Lily??s story sounds familiar, even cheesy, well, it should: her narrative is so familiar that even the least jaded among us are wont to feel a bit of schadenfreude when they pass the Lilys of their towns sporting side-swept bangs and Dashboard Confessional hoodies. In America...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock and Rebellion in Shanghai | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...form to pull out a 9-7 win and claim the title her No. 1 seeding had predicted. But Grigg didn’t seem too upset with the way her tournament run had ended. Either way, the Ramsay Cup was back in Crimson hands. “Lily??s just a fantastic player—either way it’s a success,” she said. “If I had to lose to anyone,” Grigg added, “I’d like it to be Lily...

Author: By Lisa Kennelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lorentzen Ends Teammate Grigg’s Underdog Run | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

...Marry Me a Little,” a song originally written as a possible finale for the show. It matters that the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Secret Garden not only cuts the Act Two quintet featured in its Broadway debut, but slides the haunting “Lily??s Eyes” into its place, while making numerous other changes to the order of songs. It even matters that the most recent London recording of Jesus Christ Superstar replaces the phrase “women of her kind” with the more obvious and still...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Everybody's Got the Right | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

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