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...year. Despite the lull, Will Smith kept on playing Muhammad Ali, shadowboxing, grooving along the dusty road surrounded by hundreds of adoring kid extras. Suddenly, Smith's feet left the ground and he was floating on a sea of hands. "Everyone starts shouting 'Ali, Ali, Ali,'" recalls director Michael Mann. "So, of course, I unwrapped. We started shooting like crazy. Will and Ali had become the same." When it was over, Smith was teary-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making "Ali:" Will Smith Inhabits the Role | 12/15/2001 | See Source »

...nothing to write about—nothing, that is, until I learned that the new Michael Mann film about Muhammad Ali hits theaters on Christmas Day. And two things occurred...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jingle Bell Rock: Seeking Eloquent Egotism | 12/12/2001 | See Source »

...December 25 Here’s an odd couple: Will Smith and Michael Mann, the filmmaker whose seriously heavy hand has a tendency to violently beat the intellect of audiences. “Forget what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Holiday Film Preview | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...didn’t go into the game, because I figured we would win anyway,” said Schuyler O. Mann ’05, who spent most of the afternoon tailgating with baseball teammates. “It was very fun though. There were crazy, crazy seniors doing crazy things...

Author: By Robert M. Annis and Lande A. Spottswood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Not All Head to New Haven Simply for the football | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Horace Mann's run-a-thon to raise money for the victims is among the thousands of ways that schools across the nation are coping with the stress of the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath. In Tallahassee, Fla., first-graders at Hartsfield Elementary School drew pictures for the President--and gave advice. "Dear George Bush," wrote Ian Pitts. "It's O.K. if you breate [sic] through grey smoke. But if black smokes gets in your lungs you will die." At the Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach, Calif., students wrote to the Secretary of State. "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Coping With Crisis | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

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