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...Saved and an overzealous reality show contestant in American Dreamz. New Projects: Now she's ready to be extraordinary - or at least that's what she sings on the first single from her new album, Wild Hope, due June 19. Moore will also endure pre-marital counseling by Robin Williams in her July film with John Krasinski, License to Wed. Good girl factoid: She decided she wanted to be a singer after watching Oklahoma...
...stars have to be distinguished from the previous generation: the hyperactive chameleon-comedians Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy. Ferrell doesn't dazzle by slipping into a zillion roles (as he did on Saturday Night Live). He found a persona the audience likes--the lanky, ungainly goof who thinks he's a supreme jock--and he mostly sticks with it. He knows the mass audience wants its stars only in their familiar mode. When they try going upmarket--Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, Sandler in Spanglish--the fan base deserts them...
...environmentalists complain of the carbon-footprint and waste involved in sourcing organic produce from all over the globe: "Air freighting is an extremely relevant... concern, with regard to climate change, because organic farming is known to have a lower carbon footprint than non-organic farming," said Robin Maynard, spokesman for the U.K. Soil Association, Britain's biggest monitor of organic farming. "Wasteage also applies to all major retailers. There are horrifying figures on what the U.K. throws away...
...lousy photographer. My wife tends to take most of the photographs of the kids,” Robin E. Kelsey, who specializes in the history of photography and American art, says with a laugh. Kelsey, the Loeb associate professor of the humanities, admits that he’s had to try his hand at photography recently though—his wife just gave birth to their second daughter and couldn’t be bothered to point and click...
...heart, a flower with fists in place of stamen. “It’s to express the fact that dissent is very natural and organic,” she explains. “Dissent is really beautiful.” —Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu...