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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...roommates—Phil, Marc and the two Matts (I want their names in print so they never forget)—hadn’t the foggiest idea of what I was purchasing when I excitedly recounted the virtues of the game. They thought I had gone off my rocker, that Nok Hockey was just another crazy idea, like all my previous crazy ideas...
...fraternity raised the ire of many within the group. Fraternity member Travis Caldaro was quoted in the Miami Herald as complaining that “I’m more embarrassed about the fact that a brother on the editorial board of the Miami Hurricane decided to print a story about his own fraternity...
This line, which perfectly captures the rhythm of children’s speech, will be excised from the theatrical print for next spring’s re-release. Also missing from the re-release will be the line about a Halloween trick-or-treater looking “like a terrorist.” And in the iconic scene when Elliot, E.T., et al. are fleeing on bicycles, the authorities’ rifles and guns will be digitally replaced by walkie-talkies (why not make a few bucks and have them sipping Fresca?). Although the unexpurgated E.T. was suitable...
What makes film such a powerful medium is that it combines the randomness of a performance (the camera performs, the actors perform, the production designer performs) with the indelibility of the final print. The problem with computer technology, besides allowing these tin-britched anal retentives to bleach E.T. of any distressing theme, is that it diminishes the performative aspect of movies. In Sean Penn’s recent movie The Pledge, Robin Wright Penn was digitally given a gap tooth in post-production. Every move, every twitch, is perfectly calculated. No longer do actors interact with the special effects?...
...clear the shelves of Ahmed Rashid's book on the Taliban, they are also searching for ways to satisfy their children's curiosity. Ellis' starkly realistic novel, billed as the only children's book out on the subject in English, is expected to have almost 150,000 copies in print by year's end. The novel has the grit of a survivor's tale, which it is in part. Ellis based the story on the daughter of an Afghan woman she met while working in a Pakistani refugee camp...