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...even more impressive that the woman in the thin purple dress, drinking chai and wearing makeup and nail polish in various shades of pink, plays a biological man, albeit one who is in the process of becoming a woman, in Transamerica, a low-budget indie film about a transsexual father's road trip with her newly discovered teenage prostitute son. If people thought it was brave of Nicole Kidman to endanger her glamour by wearing a big prosthetic nose or Charlize Theron to put on fake teeth, Huffman is going to get the silver star. In one scene, for longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Disparate Housewife | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

THERE HAVE BEEN big decisions of late, born of the need to nail down a fast-growing corporate structure for the next 20 years or more. In business terms, the problem inherent in designer brands is, of course, the designers themselves and how the brands they have founded might continue in their absence. Dolce & Gabbana's glossy annual report addresses that. ?Our plans for the future?? the designers are quoted as asking. ?To carry on working with the same commitment and determination so that our brand continues to grow and expand and, perhaps, in the very distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living la Vita Dolce & Gabbana | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

Junior guard Ko Yada picked a great time to nail his first career three-pointer. With the game seemingly slipping away and the Crusaders riding a wave of momentum, the reserve stepped up and drained a crucial shot...

Author: By Gregory B. Michnikov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Led By Unheralded Players | 11/23/2005 | See Source »

Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Thriller That Thinks | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...invented in the northeast, perhaps at or near Paul Smith’s College in upstate New York.” The game has gained a strong following, mostly at Dartmouth, Colby and Middlebury Colleges, and now, apparently, Eliot House. To play, one needs a hammer, a bag of nails, plenty of beer, and, obviously, a tree stump. Ben B. Collins ’06, Eliot’s Stein Club co-chair, got his stump at summer camp, after some trees got struck by lightning. The log remnant Collins brought back now resides in the basement of C-entryway...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Hammered, Toolishly | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

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