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...Shrek is a gentle giant, contentedly living alone in the middle of the woods, going about his business, scaring away the occasional angry mob intent on slaying him-you know, the usual things ogres do. However, Shrek's happy, if lonely, life is disrupted when little Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) enlists the beast to track down Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), whom the monarch seeks to make his bride. Joining Shrek in this journey, due to the law mandated by Animation Codes and Regulations Section 231b, is a wacky sidekick. In this case, that character takes the form of a donkey...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...good lines, and it is Donkey who steals the show. In what may be Murphy's funniest role since The Nutty Professor (or Metro, but that was more of an unintentional thing), Donkey prances around the screen, firing off a stream of surprisingly funny jokes and comments. Lithgow also deserves praise and laughs for his vocals on Farquaad, who is perhaps the first on-screen character ever on screen to have computer-animated chest hair...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...campus publicity. Having graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1999 with a masters in Arts in Education, this weekend will be Schorr’s second experience in managing Arts First. Although she is relatively new to the festival that Master of the Arts at Harvard John Lithgow ’67 and President Neil Rudenstine first launched in 1993, Schorr has had a great deal of experience in the arts. She has directed various spectacles around Boston, everything from feminist agitprop to theatrical fashion shows and a live philosophy-and-culture game show. With her background...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arts First: A Schorr Thing | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...arts and galvanize the arts community. What does Arts First mean to you?” Rudenstine responds that “this celebration of student and faculty creativity and talent has been one of the greatest pleasures of my tenure as President” and his co-instigator Lithgow says that “you are going to love the talent, energy and optimism of this festival.” But what does Arts First really mean...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Arts First: A Schorr Thing | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...Brothers Grimm and Disney upside down. The film, based on the storybook by William Steig, revolves around the character of Shrek, voiced by Mike Myers, a smelly ogre who enjoys solitude. The isolation of his home, however, is threatened by the power-hungry, midget Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow '67) who forcefully relocates all the fairy tale characters from his theme-park-like kingdom to Shrek's swamp. In order to live in peace, Shrek strikes a deal with Farquaad: if the ogre rescues Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from her enchanted castle, the evil ruler will remove the new members...

Author: By Stanley P. Chang, James Crawford, Yan Fang, Andrew D. Goulet, and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summer Movie Preview | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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