Word: screams
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...movie distributors go, Torontonians seem predisposed to standing ovations, open weeping and laughter. It was the first two that tipped Berney off to the potential of Whale Rider when he attended Toronto for Newmarket in 2002. A movie about a 12-year-old Maori girl doesn't scream box-office gold, but after Toronto crowds leapt to their feet for the film, Newmarket bought it, and Whale Rider went on to earn a respectable $20 million at the U.S. box office as well as an Oscar nomination for its young star, Keisha Castle-Hughes. Even if a festival goer doesn...
...teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia" had been rediscovered by alternative-rock bands like Primal Scream and Sonic Youth. Of his cult status he said, "Thank God for kids that love obscure things...
...midnight—”clock hands joined palms in respectful greeting,” as Rushdie put it—a heartfelt scream of excitement rose from thousands of throats in the Square. The first patrons came out of the Coop with their books held aloft, struggling through the clapping, cheering, slightly jealous crowd...
...friendship) and virtues (grace of movement, narrative power) of Pixar, the pioneer foremost practitioner of CGI features. It has set pieces worthy of the old Disney masters, as when Remy, on his first night in Paris, scurries and jetes to avoid the heavy footfalls of pedestrians who'd scream if they noticed him. Though the story takes place in today's Paris, the movie has the vibe of postwar years, when the light was softer, the shadows longer. The subtle colors and textures of the food alone make Ratatouille a three-star Michelin evening...
...shatter the stereotype. “I wanted to provide a different image of what a female Harvard student was,” the Lowell House English concentrator says. “Female children are often encouraged not to shout, not to make a lot of noise, not to scream,” says Klein. Women often are wary of performing publicly “for fear that they’ll sound ugly,” she adds. Klein faced that fear head-on. By her own account, she embraced “ugly noises” and unleashed...