Word: protagonists
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...movie event that doesn't end in a number, in which the hero will be played by Peter Cullen, a Canadian voice actor familiar to the teensiest fraction of moviegoers. With Steven Spielberg producing and Michael Bay directing this $150 million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots in disguise" sets your toes atappin...
...account of his experiences as a POW and "corpse miner" in Dresden after the Allies bombed the city in 1945--a book he said took 25 years to complete. At times dismissed as too accessible, Vonnegut once said his goal was to "poison [readers'] minds with humanity." Through his protagonist Eliot Rosewater, he famously echoed the dominant theme of his personal and professional life: "Goddamn it," says the wealthy but disillusioned philanthropist. "You've got to be kind...
...identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However, most of the book languishes on the wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker who helps Palestinian refugees. What could be a thrilling story gets mired in the mundane details, particularly domestic spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build at the end, the surprises that ensue...
Elle Woods, the protagonist of “Legally Blonde,” had no trouble getting into Harvard Law School: in response to surprised exclamations of “You got into Harvard Law?” Woods answered with a nonchalant “What? Like, it’s hard?” Originally a box office hit, “Legally Blonde” is now set to open as a musical on Broadway on April 29 with three Harvard grads playing prominent roles on the production. But the jump from Harvard to Broadway isn?...
...original production and in most subsequent interpretations, the protagonist of “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol” is a dwarf. But at 5’10”, Carolyn W. Holding ’10, who plays Lucie in the upcoming Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production, doesn’t quite fit that mold. “She’s very tall and very lovely and beautiful, which is not what Lucie in fact is,” says producer Mollie M. Kirk ’07. Specific physical descriptions were not a priority...