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...protesters hurled anything they could tear loose - umbrella stanchions, metal barricades, café chairs - at the shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last week's demonstrators deplored the violence - but not the passion that underlaid it. Marchers derided throwaway "Kleenex jobs" for the young as the first chink in the armor protecting France's tradition of jobs-for-life. "This law is a sign of social regression," said Gilles Debin, a white-collar union official who joined the Saturday protest in Paris...
...actor, and I realized that I would probably never be cast in anything again,” says Dorin.Though the quality of the competition for parts at Harvard shocked Dorin, who had attended a small high school in western Canada, he was reluctant to give up involvement in a passion that had come to define him. In a region that Dorin refers to as “more closely associated with hockey and cowboys than with great theatre,” his interest in acting set him apart. Dorin jokes that “since I proved a total failure...
...Gibson’s controversial 2004 film, “The Passion of the Christ,” enjoyed even greater success by casting itself as an anti-Hollywood production, and concentrating its publicity campaign in churches and other Christian-friendly venues. Seemingly, Hollywood has lost its hold on the imaginations of large segments of the film-going public...
...realized that I would probably never be cast in anything again,” says Dorin. Though the quality of the competition for parts at Harvard shocked Dorin, who had attended a small high school in western Canada, he was reluctant to give up involvement in a passion that had come to define him. In a region that Dorin refers to as “more closely associated with hockey and cowboys than with great theatre,” his interest in acting set him apart. Dorin jokes that “since I proved a total failure at skating...
...current script, a story about a “supernatural thriller about a boy who can see the future.”For Matthew S. “Hezzy” Smith ’08, screenwriting was the answer to a crisis of self-confidence.Although Smith has a passion for creative writing, after two semesters of applications he had yet to be admitted to a fiction class in the English department. “I’d been trying my darndest,” he says ruefully. When he heard about a non-credit screenwriting workshop in Winthrop House...