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...Anyone worried that onetime stripper and blogger Cody is losing her edge with all this positive attention can relax. Cody gripped her trophy during her acceptance speech and thanked Page for "introducing me to this motherf----r." Page returned the love in her speech, if a bit more demurely, saying that Cody " created a teenage female lead I feel like we've never seen before." While most Spirit Award winners are usually little known, Juno is a commercial hit, approaching $130 million at the domestic box office. Wilson, who plays a convenience store clerk in the film, noted that Juno...
...Being John Malkovitch” scribe Charlie Kaufman. “The Science of Sleep” was written in multiple languages, and the resulting disjointed character exchange only complemented the overall blurred boundaries of reality. Here, Gondry’s attempts at natural American speech are rough around the edges, and there are more than a handful of back-and-forths that stray wildly from the lexicon of Passaic, N.J., where the movie is set.The biggest flaw in a film like this isn’t where it goes but where it fails to go. The script makes several...
...stood at the podium. “This is weird,” said Reiss, a writer and producer of ‘The Simpsons.’ “This is not easy for me to come back to the alma mater and give a speech for free.” Reiss roused his audience into laughter with his deadpan jokes, comic timing, and clips from ‘The Simpsons’ and his new show ‘Queer Duck.’ He also shared his views on the current president...
...Algebra Project, a progressive math education program for low-income students that has been put in place in around 40,000 American middle schools. Currently, he teaches math in Miami, Fla. The civil rights leader only mentioned his own career in the question-and-answer session following the speech, when a former student asked him how he believed his role as an educator had furthered civil rights. Moses said that he saw education as a crucial step in expanding rights. “There is nothing radical about voter registration. But bringing voter registration to Mississippi sharecroppers, that was radical...
...time Pulitzer Prize-winner who is, according to University professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., “the most accomplished black playwright in this nation’s history,” sparked a public debate on the matter with his 1996 speech at the Theatre Communications Group biennial conference. In this speech before a largely white audience of the nation’s foremost theatrical professionals, Wilson specifically attacked Robert Brustein, theatre critic for The New Republic (TNR). Prior to the conference, Brustein had written several articles for TNR and The New York...