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...before Christmas, when Avatar opened to a $77 million gross, another film made its debut with $82,664 on four screens. That was Crazy Heart, an ordinary little movie that was at first scheduled to go direct to DVD. But the appealing performance by Jeff Bridges as a country-music star on the downalator charmed critics and started piling up best actor awards: from the L.A. film critics, the broadcast film critics, the Golden Globes gang and, most important, the Screen Actors Guild. Bridges is now the front runner for a Best Actor Oscar, and audiences have scrambled to catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Shutter Island Opens Big | 2/21/2010 | See Source »

Zydeco (Creole/French): music of southern Louisiana involving the blues, French dance melodies, and elements of Caribbean music, featuring guitar, accordion, and a washboard

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spellbound by Freshmen | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...other hand, the party wasn't always hopping. The schedule read, "11 p.m. XPAC Rap/Jam Session, live music and special performances by Rappers: Hi-Caliber, Young Cons and many more!" Alas, the reality - as a group of young Harvard conservatives found - was an empty room with a bunch of Wii video games (XPAC was strictly nonalcoholic). As the gray-haired contingent listened to George Will explore the future of the movement and ate at a "presidential banquet" upstairs at the Marriot Wardman, where the conference was being held, the cool kids had already moved on to Adams Morgan and beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CPAC, Youth Edition: Where the Party Is | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

...East Asian studies who is a strong proponent of incorporating media projects into teaching and course assignments (like swapping podcasts for papers). Through this contest, Kuriyama hopes to demonstrate the powerful ways that a film can convey a message to its audience, and how the use of images and music can make a subject matter more interesting...

Author: By Ada H. Lio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Shorts—Your Three Minutes to Fame | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

After seven rounds of competition at the Cambridge Queen’s Head, Ausick defeated 21 freshmen with the spelling of “zydeco,” a popular type of music from southern Louisiana featuring washboards and accordions. As his prize, Ausick took home $100 and 100 intramural points for his dorm, Greenough...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshmen Spell For IM Points in Bee | 2/19/2010 | See Source »

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