Word: upset
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...ways he has always felt like an outsider. When his last name was changed to Knapp, after Jackie legally adopted him when he was 14, "I expected everything to magically change, and it never did," he says. "I still felt like I was a foster kid." He recalls how upset he felt when Jackie's mother occasionally introduced him as her adopted grandson and how his cousins always seemed to get more presents than he did when the extended family exchanged gifts at Christmastime. Moreover, he says, he and Jackie "never really connected on an emotional level...
...director. Shortbus, a U.S. romantic comedy set in a New York City sex salon, might have been the outrage of the festival, since it contained several no-fooling hard-core sex scenes. But John Cameron Mitchell's movie brims with so much fun and heartbreak that it upset few people and beguiled many. The densest concentration of film talent this year - 21 directors, including Alfonso Cuarón, Alexander Payne, Walter Salles, Sylvain Chomet and Tom Tykwer - collaborated on Paris, Je T'aime, an omnibus movie of short segments, each set in a different Paris neighborhood. This sort of enterprise...
...trade rumors. The most piquant, floated by one French insider, had the Palme d'Or going to the Portuguese film Colossal Youth. If so, this would be the upset of the movie millennium. Variety's Justin Chang described the film as "a numbing, nearly three-hour fusion of documentary and dramatic essay that will hold the Portuguese director's coterie of fans in rapt attention while proving a colossal bore to everyone else...
...students savoring their last few bites of HUDS cooking in Adams last night weren’t too upset about the closings...
...student that left the UC’s Holworthy Hall office empty handed and discontented. In an e-mail, Dennis called the UC’s handling of the box issue “inefficient,” and said that she was left upset, as she had held off on purchasing boxes from other vendors for a week in favor of the UC’s sale. “I think they could have done a better job with accommodating those who woke up bright and early to get boxes that were advertised to be there but weren?...