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...mind that—as the Academy Awards is a multi-hour ceremony that has aired on television more than fifty times—that’s a lot of moments to choose from. In general, it seems, we most enjoy those that make famous people look uncomfortable, stupid, or silly. Take any one of the inevitable bloated, overemotional acceptance speeches—technically constrained by a forty-five second time limit, but which nevertheless regularly result in millions of dollars of wasted airtime...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widescreen to Flatscreen: Televising the Oscars | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...menu she could eat. She is also exercising regularly. "Whenever I'd try to do a sport at home, there'd always be really skinny people who were always really good at it, and I'd feel kind of awkward," she says. "Here I can give 100% without looking stupid." In November, she and Fahl walked a half marathon. (See how the world's top chefs lost weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Obesity Rehab for Kids Work? | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...apartment for six people and they were the only ones on the block without a radio. My great-grandmother, when asked what country she grew up in, wrote "Poland," crossed it out and then wrote "Austria." These are countries that don't even border each other. I come from stupid people. You know how I know that? Because I had to look up whether those countries border each other. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctantly, Joel Stein Discovers His Roots | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Touch of Evil That's partly because Teddy feels estranged from the island's less ethereal inhabitants. DiCaprio makes Teddy sometimes cagey-witty, sometimes stupid (he keeps mispronouncing escape as excape). Gruff and heavier than usual, with a few days' beard, he could be channeling Orson Welles' wily lawman in Touch of Evil. The onetime heartthrob from Titanic has always been a shifty character actor in a movie star's body. A star performance here would give the audience someone to root for; DiCaprio instead provides them with the spectacle of a creature fighting to creep toward a freedom that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shutter Island: Engrossing, Not Enthralling | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...team would be stupid to not shut her off,” freshman Jennifer VanderMeulen said. “Jess could barely touch the ball. We knew that Jess was going to be face-guarded. I feel like [us] freshmen took it upon ourselves to help...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshmen Impress In Season Opener | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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