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...First of all, Gardner never touched a Rubik’s Cube in rise to the top floors of the Dean Witter brokerage firm, yet Smith’s character is found repeatedly whipping through that Technicolor obstacle course of cognition. Why? Well, plot development—Gardner needs to have his ‘prodigy’ moment, of course—and because Will Smith likes Rubik’s Cubes. Furthermore, Gardner’s son—five in the film—was only a toddler when he was chasing the office job:no existential...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: A Shameless Bust | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

...answer questions from the audience. Green’s directorial technique is marked by its frequent use of the Southern Gothic style. “Snow Angels,” however, is unique in his corpus. Set in the northern United States, the film is a plot-driven story about adult relationships, rather than the coming-of-age narratives that characterize his other films. While Green wrote original screenplays for each of his past films, he adapted “Snow Angels” from the novel of the same name by Stewart O’Nan. When asked during...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Director 'Green' Visits HFA | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...She’s All That” star emerges from the depths of post-teen stardom, slightly older and chubbier, to reclaim his role as pretty boy. Prinze’s mediocre performance is a perfect match to the film’s corny plot, which isn’t terrible but nonetheless fails to rise above the chick-flick genre. Prinze plays Jack, a heartless and materialistic advertising executive with a soul in serious need of rescue. Enter: Jill, played by still up-and-coming actress Taryn Manning, a beautiful and charismatic young woman with a carefree attitude...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jack and Jill vs. The World | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Though Togut has never written or directed any other plays, she imagines that the writing process for “A Little Night Yiddish” was truly unique. “It was different than writing any other kind of play, because it was not about the plot at all,” she says. “I am trying to say something, but I’m not really trying to tell a story. I only feel like I half-wrote it because I took all these wonderful songs that I love and then I just wrote...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Laura M. togut '08 | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Felicity looked at him, making little effort to suppress her great annoyance. “You know that no one ever walks the grounds on the south side of the house,” she said. “If you wish to set up a small plot for your own personal amusement, then do so, but this garden is to be seen by our friends. Who will see it on the south side?”Frederick fairly shook with displeasure. “Our friends,” he thought, bitterly. As though their friends had not made...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters | Title: The Stable Boy | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

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