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...make a difference? They can but often not in the way filmmakers hope. They're not for nonbelievers. They don't make bigots tolerant, Hummer drivers conservationist or burger eaters vegan. Movies make advocates out of supporters. They change the world not in wide swaths of multiplexes but one popcorn bucket at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Film Change The World? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...happy about the workout she was getting, she was most excited about something that was missing: “I didn’t have to do positions called downward-facing dog,” she said. Sweet. So if you’re looking to burn off that popcorn chicken and listen to MTV at the same time, stop by either gym for a workout that’s a little more interesting than taking the stairs up to the 5th floor of Widener...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Learn to Jam, MTV-Style, at Hemenway Gym | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...answers phone calls to the department, recalled one memorable experience.“Someone from Paul Newman’s office once requested a translation of a motto for his salad dressing label,” she said, “and sent us cases of his microwavable buttered popcorn that perfumed our hallways for months afterwards.”—Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu.—Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ovid Meets Hollywood | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...your title. Despite exhaustion, the standard punctuation easily flows out as you make sure your unique thesis appellation conforms to the format of approximately 99 percent of Harvard thesis titles.“Wouldn’t it be nice if the grill were open?”: Starvation, Popcorn Chicken, and the Fantasy of Food in “A Moveable Feast” and Francis Bacon. Mmmm. Bacon.Not quite. Particularly since your thesis was supposed to be about generational conflict and Indian politics. Speaking of which: Mmmmmm. Indian food.Food, or the lack thereof, can be a distracting force...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Thesis Eating: Procrastination Alimentation | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Greetings indie weirdos," host Rainn Wilson said to open the show. "Here come the first motherf-----s to present the first motherf-----g award." At the chronically casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Not-Oscar Goes to... | 2/24/2008 | See Source »

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