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After “The Mineola Twins,” Steinemann plans to take a break from theater to work on his thesis. His thesis focuses on the 17th-century Spanish play “Life is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón, a work that touches on many issues confronted in “The Mineola Twins...

Author: By Katherine L. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Jeremy R. Steinemann '08 | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

What hasn't changed is the NC-17. Though the designation got a makeover in 1990--it used to be X--it still has the old, unfair tinge of porn. The big studios avoid it. Mostly it goes to sexually charged fare from world-class directors, like Pedro Almodvar's Bad Education ($5.2 million domestic) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers ($2.5 million). The one big, glitzy NC-17 movie, the 1995 Vegas-stripper epic Showgirls, cost $45 million to produce and earned just $20 million. That modest sum is the highest take ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Sex Doesn't Sell | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...team benefited from the leaked data, McLaren escaped any penalty. New evidence, presented to the WMSC at Thursday's hearing, reportedly centered on e-mail and phone traffic between Stepney and Coughlan dating back to March. Also apparently under examination: e-mails between Alonso and McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Record Fine for Formula One | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film of 1999, identity is not a stable character trait. A nurse becomes a prostitute, a nun becomes pregnant, a prostitute becomes a saint and several men become women. The much-anticipated stage adaptation of the film, now playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until Nov. 24, doesn't settle on a single form either. Containing a film sequence and several plays-within-the-play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover - a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pedro Almodóvar: Mixed Company | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

...Pedro Belo hasn't slept in two days. Commander of the Police District of Baucau, about 100km east of Dili, Belo is still wearing his body armor, yawning as sirens wail around his station. He sits at his desk reading reports of local outbreaks of violence that his men cannot respond to. "Every time we leave here they know, and they will attack this place," he says. "We've asked for help and we had the Australian soldiers come here, but they went around and then they left. They patrol in helicopters, but you can't catch anyone from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Streets of Shame | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

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