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...soul of the movie is Fanning, who, like Lily, has turned 14 after an unusual childhood. She was half her present age when she emerged as a self-possessed little scene-stealer in Sean Penn's I Am Sam, and continued to impress in Sweet Home Alabama, Man on Fire and the Spielberg War of the Worlds. Other kid actors might be imps and scamps, but Fanning located the gravity and peril in childhood. Now she is negotiating early adolescence with the same poise. She recently survived the indie movie Hounddog, a heaping plate of refried Southern Gothic (known...
...sculpts calamity into catharsis. His novel In the Wake is a raw portrait of grief based on the tragedy of Petterson's adult life: the death of his parents and two brothers in a ferry accident. The opening of Out Stealing Horses climaxes in a scene in which a 10-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills his twin brother. The event stops your heart, but Petterson's lyrical prose pulls you forward...
...rising reputation. “I’m a big fan of CEB events. I hear the movie’s supposed to be really good,” Cox says. Leiter adds that the screening introduces a much-needed new element to Harvard’s social scene: “I think the College has a difficult time finding ways to entertain Harvard students; this is a good way to do that.” After the event, Schwartz echoed the satisfaction of the huge crowd: “We created something to do on a Thursday...
While the “party suites” in Harvard Houses undoubtedly give the underwhelming social scene a boost every weekend (and often weekdays), these party havens come with casualties: for the students living next door to the raving rooms, peace and quiet can be hard to come...
...Spiro ’10 of Pfoho had no idea what she was getting into when she moved in next door to the Belltower Suite. But the nightly loud music and shaking walls quickly clued her in. When she decided to take a night off from the party scene earlier this fall, Spiro, who is also a Crimson magazine editor, found that the party scene wasn’t going to let her off the hook. Comfortably snuggled in her PJs, Spiro was surprised to discover a large, wasted stranger stumbling through her room. After numerous exchanges (name calling...