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...first frame of the 2009 summer blockbuster season saw nice guys finish first, and second. On Thursday night Hugh Jackman was on The Daily Show, Matthew McConaughey on The Tonight Show, both playing the adoring dad with anecdotes about how cute and flirtatious their young sons are. On Friday moviegoers started clogging the plexes to see these courtly musclemen in their signature roles: Jackman as a lupine superhero, McConaughey as a stud in need of fixing. (See the TIME 100: The World's Most Influential Entertainers...
...attendance 14%. As Gitesh Pandya notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded with previews of coming attractions, the previews often tailored to the genre of the picture playing. No warm-weather film is going to tiptoe into theaters; if a major-studio movie is opening in the next...
...said he hoped funding could be extended further. Plans currently include the creation of research teams composed of Harvard and Portuguese scientists, and opportunities for researchers and professors to travel between the two countries to teach and collaborate. The program may also send a few undergraduates to Portugal each summer to work in labs, and Harvard’s Health Publications Division will help Portuguese health professionals produce and publish medical information for use by researchers and the general public. In recent years, Harvard and other universities have increasingly funneled resources into promoting translational research. Last summer, the University received...
...that is what I am most interested in,” she says. “With contemporary dance, you do not have to be 16 years old,” she adds. “You can actually still be dancing at 20.” This summer, Chin will be transferring her contemporary dance skills from the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble to several prestigious summer programs. For the last semester, she has worked as a teaching fellow for Dramatic Arts 127: “Rite of Spring at the Nexus of Artand Ritual.” The creator...
...Besides, I think my head looks unbalanced without the bow,” she says. The bow may be the one element of constancy in an artist who is otherwise a paragon of interdisciplinary spirit and multifaceted interest. Chou is interested in fashion; she did a fashion internship one summer in L.A, a good deal of her wardrobe is homemade, and she designs costumes for HRDC. She takes photographs, plays keyboard in a band, is interested in architecture, and is a commercial graphic designer. Seen the Fogg Art Museum’s brochure? It’s hers. She likes...