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Unfortunately, when the dogs are not on-screen, the movie is painful to stomach due to Walker’s atrocious acting and a spectacularly abysmal script...
...March 1965 Crimson story, then-Middlesex Superior Court Justice Frank W. Tomasello alleged that institutions like Harvard were to blame. “Tax-free institutions,” he said during the 1965 sentencing of an accused 19 year-old drug dealer, “should screen out those they let in.”Dana L. Farnsworth, then-director of University Health Services, reacted in The Crimson. “Perhaps a few more people than usual are experimenting with drugs.”The University responded to criticism by sending drug users to psychiatrists or putting them...
Winterbottom tried to surmount the text’s difficulties by making the adaptation a comical tribute to how tough it is to adapt the novel to screen. The scenes switch between actors reenacting scenes from the book and the same actors interacting “off-screen” with the production staff of the faux-film. Steve Coogan stars as Tristram Shandy himself and as Shandy’s father in the movie within a movie. Off-screen, he plays himself, “Steve Coogan...
...guide him through the activity--a lesson in colors, say, or shapes--from a device connected to the TV. Chicco, meanwhile, has developed a bilingual videophone for tots 18 months and older. When a child flips a switch on the keypad, objects (a duck, a tree) appear on the screen, and a voice, speaking in Spanish and English over a cordless handset, identifies what's on display. Price $40 each Available Fall...
...first law of modern life is that everything is as impermanent as an image on a screen; the only form of continuity (the Buddhist monks in Thimphu or Kathmandu might have told us) is change. Suddenly, Nepal, haunted by violent Maoist insurgents on the one hand and an autocratic King on the other, is the country that is difficult for tourists to enjoy, its streets silent after dark, its character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels...