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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...especially cute in Never Been Kissed, her new vehicle in which she stars and tries out the role of executive producer. Not only is Barrymore a personality tailored for the silver screen (and apparently for behind-the-scenes work as well), she is a wonderful actress for the type of syrupy, comedic, transformative love story that the movie chronicles...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to School | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...particularly memorable project, he recalls, was a plan to create a foam rubber teapot, which necessitated something from which to make the mold. The answer: Kiely loaned him the House's silver teapot without flinching--"probably an heirloom," Fitch says. He never told Kiely about how the Plaster of Paris and other chemicals almost didn't come off the silver...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Caped Crusader | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...sitting at a corner table in the room that he's responsible for creating, the silver-haired Kiely, with only a tie to complement his black shirt and jeans, bristles at the suggestion that he is responsible for the character that haunts Adams House from its days before randomization...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Caped Crusader | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...parents died when he was young, and he was raised by an uncle who gave his charge 100 pieces of silver when it came time for the young man to go to university. Zhu studied electrical engineering at Beijing's Qinghua University, adroitly joining the Communist Party in 1949, and then worked in the state planning commission. In 1957 he made a speech questioning the party's economic policies. The following year, he was disgraced as a rightist, thrown out of the Communist Party and spent some years in the northeast tending livestock until Deng Xiaoping began looking for people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Star | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...idea was to spice the old format with smart comers--Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet), Omar Epps (Higher Learning) and Giovanni Ribisi (the medic in Saving Private Ryan)--and a screw-you modernity. Instead, director and co-writer Scott Silver (Johns) gives us a surly anti-toon; it's the Three Sociopathic Stooges with lots of Method mewling. By the time Ribisi has his big shouting scene with Epps ("Dude, your cover's been blown. Your cover's been blown. You cover has been blown!"), you realize these kids just aren't having any fun playing cops. But hang around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bad Atti-Toon | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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