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...anything wrong with that. I would argue (in an admittedly self-justifying vein) that the sight of other people working hard can indeed prove the ultimate de-motivator, robbing us of the ability to feel sorry for ourselves and wallow in the self-induced misery of serial procrastination. The solitary all-nighter-as-penance (with nothing but occasional bonding sessions with the vending machine as company) is the archetypal scholarly self-flagellation...
...campus has proven in the last year to be unique for a first-year publication: professors are using articles in their class syllabi and students are still referring to it months after it was published. The magazine already has groundings on the web, within the International Standard Serial Number administration and international recognition including a permanent subscription from a Belgian publisher. Cinematic has featured student-written articles next to submissions by people ranging from the producer of The Graduate to a Cannes-awarded Iranian director. All in all, 40 undergraduates and ourselves have been working extremely hard over the last...
...They did?at least on television. She was cast as Little Swallow in the Chinese-Taiwanese serial, Princess Pearl. For the first of many times, she played a commoner who gets a makeover and reveals her true nobility. The series was a huge hit in China (there are peasants who still have the Princess poster in their homes) and with Chinese living in Europe and the U.S. Nothing in the series beguiled viewers so much as the almond-eyed girl in the title role...
Currently playing in an extended run through Sunday is Roberto Zucco, the brainchild of director Ben D. Margo ’03 -’04. Based on a British translation of French playwright Bernard-Marie Koltes’ final work, Zucco tells the story of its titular serial killer who murders, burgles and rapes apparently without motive. John C. Dewis stars as the enigmatic Zucco, alongside Sara L. Bartel ’06 in the female lead role of Girl...
Director Patty Jenkins’s debut feature, Monster chronicles the sanguinous final chapter of infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos and the personal trials that may have led to her murder of seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Theron’s performance is breakthrough work, painstakingly recreating the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core...