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...Beckham's Body Double? The Jan. 29 People page made me do a double take to make sure my eyes weren't playing tricks on me. The resemblance between actor Jason Bateman and soccer star David Beckham is uncanny. Surely Bateman needs only to turn up at the audition to be cast as Beckham when David Beckham: The Movie is eventually made. Assuming, of course, that Beckham doesn't audition for the part, considering that he might very well end up living in Hollywood. William Stopforth George, South Africa...
...selection is “going to get a lot of coverage, as it should,” he said. When Lawrence H. Summers, a former Secretary of the Treasury, was picked to serve as university president in 2001, The New York Times ran a story on page 32. Last Saturday, the news that the search committee had selected Faust made the front page. In addition to the national media attention Faust’s selection has attracted, her promotion created a buzz around Radcliffe Yard. Yesterday, balloons lined the staircase leading up to Fay House, where Faust currently maintains...
Harry Potter as a literary icon, of course, is not a sex symbol for many of the series’ readers (except perhaps the tweens). But the transition from the page to the screen has led to the over-sexing of our young hero. The whole thing has become just a little too Hollywood, a little too perfect...
...sporting a six-pack or made up to look gorgeous, it feels unnatural and cheap. In the fourth movie, for example, an entire scene is dedicated to a female character trying to spy on him in the bath, and all the action scenes glorify his physique. In transfer from page to screen, Harry has become the brooding teenage hunk, fitting into the cheap, star-studded framework of Hollywood aesthetics. In the novel, Harry is exceptional for being a bookish hero; in the movie, for being some sort of jailbait Adonis. Even worse, the supporting actors—creepy Alan Rickman...
...against Harvard, scoring once in each period to upset the Crimson at Starr Rink. “Overall, our team did not do a great job of possessing the puck,” Chu said. “We had moments when we were all on the same page and then moments when we gave the puck back to Colgate.”Co-captain Jennifer Sifers initiated the scoring when senior Katie Johnston found her alone by the net on the power play at 7:34 into the frame.That was all that would be heard from the Crimson sticks...