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Director Wes Anderson was very easy to fall in love with. His debut film, Bottle Rocket (1996), starring his goofily charming friends the Wilson brothers, won him early cult status. Rushmore was built on a witty and distinctive voice, and Anderson's visual brilliance came into sharp focus with The Royal Tenenbaums, an elaborately wrapped present to a generation that wanted its own J.D. Salinger, one without the hermit-like lifestyle and creepy Joyce Maynard baggage. (See the Top 10 Troubled Genius films...
...fans. Badger (Bill Murray) is no longer just a neighbor, but a lawyer who gives advice on mortgages. Mrs. Fox, so sweetly supportive of her partner in the book - it is she who dubs him "fantastic" - is now a dubious sort who limits all praise and wields a sharp claw. Mother to four in Dahl's story, here she has only one kit, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), who is petulant, undersized, uncoordinated and insecure. "You're supposed to be my lab partner," he says to a comely young fox named Agnes, who is distracted in their biology class by the Foxes...
Starting with the headline (Harvard FML: Because Going to Harvard Is Just That Hard), it was clear that this wasn't going to be a glowing review of the website. The post offered a sharp criticism of Harvard FML, a creation of the Harvard Voice, and lampooned Harvard FMLs often mundane posts. The author even recommended that a "my life is average" site might have been more accurate—not exactly the first time this idea has been proposed...
...just the kind of game we needed in a big time pressure experience,” Crimson coach Ray Leone said. “[Baskind] was focused. She was sharp with her touches...
...fellowship might mitigate some of the anxiety that Law School graduates have experienced since large law firms—predominant employers of HLS grads—have been particularly hard hit by a sharp fall in demand for legal work in the financial industry during the recent recession...