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...injury.“She performed above and beyond what we expected,” Watson said.MORRIS TROPHYBoston University hosted the fourth annual Morris Trophy on Saturday and Sunday, where the Crimson came away with sixth-place in an 18-team field.Senior skipper Matt Knowles and senior crew Emily Simon scored 76 points for the team in their seventh-place showing, while sophomore skipper Jon Garrity and senior crew Ashley Nathanson finished in fifth-place for Harvard.The host-Terriers, Yale, South Florida, Boston College and Bowdoin took the top five spots.THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson once again sent its top fleet...
...Fuzz, written by the English team of Simon Pegg (the movie's star) and Edgar Wright (its director), who did the zombie comedy of manners Shaun of the Dead. That film was a Molotov cocktail of genres: an Anglo-American combustion of romantic Brit comedies like Notting Hill and the U.S. zombie genre so robustly exhumed in Night of the Living Dead. Or, as Wright and Pegg pitched it: "Richard Curtis shot through the head by George Romero...
...even have publicity divisions to work especially with them, the fanboy effect is most pronounced for smaller-budget releases like Smith's. Shaun of the Dead, 2004's romantic comedy with zombies, became a sleeper hit when horror buffs embraced its zombie-movie in-jokes and morbid humor. Simon Pegg, 37, the British comic who co-wrote Shaun and plays the film's lovelorn zombie hunter, remembers wishing he had someone with whom to share the joy of cinematic subtext when he first saw E.T. in 1982. In one scene, Spielberg dropped in the music from Lucas' The Empire Strikes...
...hotshot London policeman (co-writer Simon Pegg) is transferred to an apparently tranquil English village after showing up his superiors in this buddy-cop satire from the spoofmeisters behind Shaun of the Dead. All is not as it seems as Pegg (above right) and his lovably oafish sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths. The twosome pursue criminals so exuberantly and the violence is so spectacular, it's like Lethal Weapon but with brains--and scones...
...Criticism has turned out to be very hard to take, a lot harder than you would think. Simon, is your book just about to come...