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...Dov’s been a huge part of the team’s turnaround,” sophomore winger Rob Fried said...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Dov Grumet-Morris '05 | 3/19/2002 | See Source »

...Rob Reiner, co-founder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was appalled when he saw his studio's film Proof of Life. It wasn't that he could predict the movie's demise at the box office. "I thought, 'Wow, why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm?'" Reiner says. "It didn't add to the plot." Fourteen months later, Castle Rock now has a policy of discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwriter who wants to depict it must first meet with Reiner. "They have to make a really good case," he says. "Movies are basically advertising cigarettes to kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Puffing Up a Storm | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...Linda Richman would once have said, Celebrity Boxing was actually neither celebrity nor boxing. Given the matchups - Danny "Danny Partridge" Bonaduce vs. Barry "Greg Brady" Williams, Todd "Different Strokes" Bridges vs. Rob "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle and Tonya "Kneecaps" Harding vs. Paula "Kiss It" Jones - it would better have been called "Didn't You Used To Be a Celebrity? Boxing." And the pugilism was more like flailing than boxing (plus, with 16-ounce gloves strapped to the fighters' hands and cushiony sparring helmets on, nobody was likely to emerge too bloodied) but then, nobody was tuning in for a grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Celebrity Boxing' is a Stiff | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

...funny as an idea - its inspiration, MTV's claymation "Celebrity Deathmatch," is hilarious. But as an actual event, it still came down to cheering as two has-beens sloppily beat the crap out of each other, which becomes sickly real when you're watching Todd Bridges pop poor Rob Vanilla Winkle's head like a tetherball. It finally felt like watching, in some grimy corner of some city, watching two winos whale on each other in a back room for $20 and a bottle of Ripple. It should have been a guilty pleasure, but there just wasn't enough pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Celebrity Boxing' is a Stiff | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

...bumper crowd of little kids, with parents in the hallway trying to get a glimpse of them," recalls Rob Leider, assistant principal at the school, West Bloomfield High. His heart went out to these youngsters: "They seemed pretty studious. But when they finished and came out of the rooms, they were little kids lost in a big building, looking for their mothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Kids Take Big Tests | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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