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Weller received the 1954 Nobel Prize for Medicine with two of his Harvard colleagues—John P. Enders, Weller’s former professor at the Medical School, and Frederick C. Robbins??for their research on polio. The researchers reported successfully cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube for the first time in 1949, using tissue taken from a monkey. (Enders died in 1985, Robbins...
...Robbins?? work on films like “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Dead Man Walking,” “Bull Durham,” and last summer’s “War of the Worlds” have helped make the actor/director a media celebrity. But during a nationwide conference call, conducted last week, which included The Crimson, Robbins accused mainstream media outlets of “misrepresenting” a recent project he wrote and directed about journalism and the Iraq War.Recently, Robbins has struggled to publicize...
...Punk’d” partner Ashton Kutcher, shows up midway through in the role of a rescued astronaut. While he proves he’s more than a goofy sidekick to Kutcher, he acts with the bland humor of Luke Wilson at his worst. Likewise, Robbins?? role is little more than a cameo–he has about five minutes of screen time. Directed by Jon Favreau, “Zathura’s” plot moves fluidly from each board game challenge to the next. Like...
While I’d like to claim that I’ve come a long way since then, anyone who has accompanied me on a trip to Herrell’s or Toscanini’s or Baskin Robbins??normally the place of their choosing—can tell you that’s not quite so. But I’ve adopted new methods to defuse the pressure of deciding. I ask to sample flavors, I consult my apathetic friends, and, most of the time, I end up choosing two flavors, but only one scoop, please...
...Robbins?? good humor is all the more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...