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...bombast, though, what carries “How to Train Your Dragon” is the dialogue written for its characters and handed off to a superb cast. Baruchel plays the self-deprecating misfit Hiccup as though he’s talking to the audience, and not the characters on the screen. In this way, he pulls the viewer into his confidence, and both find themselves the only sane people in a village of blood-crazed Vikings...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Train Your Dragon | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...bill reflected what the Steamy Bohemians claim was their initial motivation to create “Jerkus Circus” five years ago. “We want to entertain people, want people to be uncensored and free,” Schulbaum said. So they created this format for misfit entertainers, hoping to “subvert gender norms and expectations” along...

Author: By Benjana Guraziu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When the (Jerkus) Circus Comes to Town... | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

Extremely disappointed at their tournament’s abrupt end, the teams soon realized what thousands of tourists, misfit best friends, and Katy Perry have realized before them: when there’s time to kill and nothing of interest for thousands of miles, the bright lights and dark clubs of The Strip beckon...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ultimate Frisbee Does Sin City | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...detention, and their experience - as related in John Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes at the end of the movie to their grown-up tormentor. In You Couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brat Pack Author Susannah Gora | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

What do you think happened on Monday, after that day in detention? It is my hope that Claire [the princess] and Bender [the rebel] were boyfriend and girlfriend and really fell in love and had a beautiful relationship. That Allison [the misfit] and Andy [the jock] were also boyfriend and girlfriend. And that Brian felt more confident because he had discovered a new part of himself. (See pictures of movie costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brat Pack Author Susannah Gora | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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