Word: simpson
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...Albert Simpson, an Annenberg Hall dishwasher who served behind-the-scenes in Harvard dining halls for 13 years, died at his home in the Cambridge area on Sept...
...festive. The suicide bombers of Sept. 11 severed the convocation in half: five days of illuminating fun, five days of mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. So this year on Sept. 11, the festival presented two films that explicitly confronted the attacks and their aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heartrending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September 11. The conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 min. 9 sec. Some episodes find...
...protesters' ranks included both longtime opponents of war in general and some MPs who believe the U.S. call for military action - and the British response to that call - is a thinly veiled response to threats on oil supplies. Labour MP Alan Simpson told the Belfast News Letter, "Sadly, I think Bush will hit Iraq in much the same way that a drunk will hit a bottle. He needs to satisfy his thirst for power and oil." Simpson then dismissed Blair's report as "deeply flawed, partial and superficial," according to the paper...
...mourning from which the movies provided only fitful distraction. This year Toronto returned to its root functions as film showplace and star magnet (there's Dustin! there's Denzel!). But on Sept. 11, 2002, the programmers presented two films that explicitly confronted the attacks and their aftermath: Jim Simpson's The Guys, a conventionally heart-rending meeting of a journalist and a New York City fire captain, and the much more ambitious and provocative 11'09"01: September...
...over by a guy and has a vision of her as a scared, lost toddler. As in the original, Family Affair has wealthy Manhattan bachelor Uncle Bill (Gary Cole) taking in his brother's orphaned kids, who are such old-fashioned wide-eyed waifs, it's as if Bart Simpson had never been drawn...