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...tutors is preschoolers and kindergartners, whose parents are hoping that if their kids learn to read before first grade, it will ultimately help them get into college and get good jobs. Anxious moms and dads are no longer satisfied with traditional nursery school, which many see as a glorified romper room that focuses too much on learning through play. And of course, after years of Baby Einstein marketing, some parents have become convinced that the more math and reading skills their tots master, the better. Srinivas Rao, a veterinarian in Columbia, Md., began sending his daughter Sanjana to after-school...
Trying to rehabilitate the public image of skinheads is no easy task. Judging by Hollywood's take on the genre - see 1998's American History X or Russell Crowe in 1992's Romper Stomper - skinheads are popularly portrayed as neo-Nazi racists with a penchant for violent thuggery. Not so, contends Shane Meadows, the young British director whose new film, provocatively entitled This is England, is raising eyebrows in its exposé of this most controversial of subcultures...
...series Halifax f.p., playing a schizophrenic and a murder suspect with multiple personality disorder, respectively. If anyone had the monopoly over damaged souls and troubled teens it was McKenzie. The elfin actress first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over by Cate Blanchett. And for the latter part of the '90s, McKenzie's star seemed eclipsed by a succession of less dangerous, more girl-next...
...Being gifted helps, and on graduating in 1990, McKenzie was immediately cast opposite Russell Crowe in Geoffrey Wright's incendiary Romper Stomper. If it was a baptism by fire, it was "a really beautiful one," she recalls. "It was my first film but boy was I agog." She remembers rookie director Wright as "a great coaxer," and took acting notes from her costar, who she calls "an exquisite performer." For Crowe, "it's straight back to the drawing board," says McKenzie. "Who's the character? What does he believe in? Who's his family...
...life of the mind." Instead, she encounters charming, predatory frat boys like the handsome Hoyt Thorpe; jock demigods like basketball star Jojo Johanssen; and icy prep-school snobs like her roommate, the bitchy Groton grad Beverly. Instead of an ivory tower, she finds a status-obsessed, intellectually bankrupt sexual romper room. Will she hold to her ideals or be dragged down into the beer-soaked...