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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eight-foot-tall blue Russian who runs a circus of more-or-less trained mice; and Miss Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Forcible (Dawn French), a pair of venerable theatrical troupers endlessly recounting their glory days in the music hall. Coraline also meets a boy her age, Whybe Lovet (Robert Bailey Jr.), the grandson of the grande dame who owns the place, and a talking cat (Keith David) with dark secrets he eventually spills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...time joining the ranks of embarrassing White House sibs (e.g. Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, Neil Bush) by getting busted in Nairobi for marijuana possession • news anchors are serially told "I screwed up" by • policy of to curtail exorbitant rewards for grotesque failure • sudden attempt by journalist Robert Feuereisen to get autograph of during signing ceremony by is thwarted by Secret Service agents trained to prevent unexpected approaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

After many years of waiting, prowling the “Sundance” section at Blockbuster, and watching channel 117 (Sundance Channel), I finally made the pilgrimage to Robert Redford’s mecca of film and celebrity this January. Despite the all-star journalists at the country’s top newspapers, magazines, and blogs that criticize Sundance’s growing commercial and mainstream vibe, I think I found the true spirit of the festival. It just resided in the least likely places...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Fun in the Sun(dance) | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...introduction to the world of film, prevented by his strict Calvinist background from seeing a movie until the age of eighteen. He made up for lost time by watching an average of three movies a day while studying at UCLA and earning his MA in Film Studies. While viewing Robert Bresson’s “Pickpocket,” though, Schrader became inspired by the film’s careful investigation of society, and his work veered from film criticism into screenwriting.“I got into writing for the best of all reasons: self-therapy...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schrader Discusses Characters, Career | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...yearly trip to Los Angeles over that takes place over intersession—offers two dozen current students a glimpse at the industry they hope to enter. Last month, students on the trip met with a wide range of professionals—from agents and writers to Robert M. Kraft ’76, the chief executive of Fox Music. “We were bussed around from studio to studio, panel to panel in order to experience a broad cross-section of Hollywood,” said Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11. As they learned about...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Welcome to the Reel World | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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