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...years later, Jaws and Star Wars became successively the all-time top-grossing movies, and the teen market announced itself as the dominant one. Why make movies for adults, the moguls asked rhetorically, when the kids are our most reliable customers? The best American movies were no longer a conversation with grownups; they were fairy tales told by a gifted babysitter. That is the industry Valenti presided over for the next quarter-century...
...It’s been more than a century since radio’s rise to public prominence, and more than twenty years after the supposed death of the radio star. Despite the greatly exaggerated reports of radio’s demise (what happened to that video star, after all?), it continues to make headlines and generate a great deal of excitement for its faithful listeners and detractors alike...
Justin A. Rice ’99 and Christian T. Rudder ’97 of indie rock band Bishop Allen may one day thank Middle-English literature for making them rock stars. Bishop Allen, so-named for the street in Central Square where Rice and Rudder first lived and recorded together, would never have been were it not for the pesky concentration requirement that led to their first encounter.“We were in English 10a together,” says Rudder of his first conversation with Rice. “He was in my section...
...today's talent includes a 21-year-old blond, blue-eyed beauty who just won her second major (Brittany Lincicome); a young Mexican (Lorena Ochoa) on the verge of dethroning longtime No. 1 Sorenstam; a teen phenom, now 20, with a penchant for pink (Paula Creamer); a Japanese rock star trailed by a swarm of photographers (Ai Miyazato); and a swimsuit-calendar model with her own reality-TV show (Natalie Gulbis). "My decision to leave college and turn pro was one of the best decisions I've ever made," says Gulbis. "I'm living my dream and having so much...
...slot. The two fell to Dartmouth’s top doubles team 8-4.Brook and Curto had rougher times in singles, losing 6-3, 7-6(4) and 7-6(2), 6-2, respectively. Nevertheless, the two have been vital the Crimson all season, starting nearly every match. The star of the day for Harvard was undoubtedly its captain, Mukundan. She played second doubles with Brook, winning 8-4 to clinch the doubles point for the Crimson. Mukundan then annihilated Dartmouth’s Mary Beth Winingham in singles 6-1, 6-2 for her third straight win since a painful...