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Child actors have been stealing scenes and hearts at least since Jackie Coogan teamed with Charlie Chaplin in the 1921 weepy The Kid. For three years in the '30s, Shirley Temple was Hollywood's biggest box-office star; she was just 6 when the Motion Picture Academy voted her a special Oscar. Since then, the Academy has honored 16 actors under 14 with nominations or Oscars. Keisha Castle-Hughes, 14, the Maori charmer of Whale Rider, was cited last year. Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) and Anna Paquin (The Piano) won supporting-actress Oscars on their first acting jobs. Standards...
...battle for the Philippines, to then-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt after the war. If Asercion has indeed found Aguinaldo's flag, "it is an incredible artifact with immense historical value that has been sitting forgotten," says San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Geraldo Sandoval, who has sponsored a motion to have the War Memorial authenticate the discovery. Not surprisingly, Philippine officials now want the flag back. "It opens up a lot of sensitive things in our relationship," says Sen. Richard Gordon, who, along with representatives of the National Historical Institute, visited the flag in San Francisco. "Returning it would...
...highly successful Tokyo Raiders, by director Jingle Ma, whose name appropriately evokes the sound box-office cash registers were making this Lunar New Year season throughout the Chinese-speaking world. In Tokyo Raiders, Ma moved the standard Hong Kong action-comedy plot (cop, girl, gangsters, slow-motion spin kicks) to Japan. But Tokyo is so five minutes ago compared with red-hot Korea. Time for a remake. Leung and his fellow Tokyo cast members are sent packing to Seoul...
...bill was brought up as new business at last week’s general meeting, requiring one more than two-thirds of the votes to be considered. Surprisingly, the motion to consider failed by one vote, 28-14-1. The next night we attempted to discuss the bill at the U.C.’s Student Affairs Committee meeting. After a short introduction and a short question and answer period lasting no longer than five minutes, a motion was made to table and postpone the legislation indefinitely. The motion passed 14-4, effectively killing the bill. The dark and unsettling...
...rats, for example, we know that the male retina has more cells designed to detect motion. In females, the retina has more cells built to gather information on color and texture. If the same is true in humans, as Sax suspects, that may explain why, in an experiment in England four years ago, newborn boys were much more likely than girls to stare at a mobile turning above their cribs. It may also help explain why boys prefer to play with moving toys like trucks while girls favor richly textured dolls and tend to draw with a wider range...