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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this is also a comedy of murders. There are chain saws and nail guns, and a severed head cellophaned in the fridge. But the carnage, like the sex scenes, is shot so pristinely that it becomes a nouvelle-cuisine feast; this is a splatter film Martha Stewart could love. The acting is similarly fastidious. A trio of beguiling actresses (Reese Witherspoon, Chloe Sevigny, Samantha Mathis) sing backup as Patrick's favorite victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Yuppie's Killer Instinct | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...civic-institution-loving PBS) and reads--and lives out--a different story every episode. But the real stars are the words that the program's Sesame Street-esque skits, songs and cartoons cleverly bring to life, teaching kids to read along and sound out words onscreen. A Motown group, Martha Reader and the Vowelles, sings new vowel sounds; Dr. Ruth Wordheimer (played by Dr. Ruth Westheimer) helps patients deal with "long-word freak-out"; and in "Gawain's Word," a spoof on Wayne's World, jousting knights representing phonemes (sn and ooze for example) collide to make words (snooze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Pride of Literary Lions | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Local real estate developer Richard Friedman, the Martha's Vineyard owner of the larger-than-life, 1,000-pound pig Henrietta who served as the inspiration for Mamet's book, said that Mamet's book was not a typical children's story...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mamet Cryptic About Book's Message | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Henrietta is a legendary, famous pig," says local real estate developer Richard Friedman, her Martha's Vineyard owner...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Little Piggy Goes to Harvard | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

...work deep in Africa, DeVore met his match in Martha's Vineyard. USA. On a trip there in 1984, he contracted tularemia, an extremely rare disease found in ticks and rabbits, and Lyme disease...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It Was Good For Us: Cheeky 'Sex' Professor to Retire After 37 Years | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

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