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...life imitates art” has become the popular cliché of the past several years. When President Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the press had a field day comparing the situation to the Robert DeNiro satire Wag the Dog, in which the fictional president commissions the production of a fake war in order to ward off scandal. A year later, when two high school students murdered more than a dozen of their peers at Columbine High School, the movie industry was quickly assailed for films such...
...career that began with a Kix cereal commercial at age 3 and spans three dozen movie and TV roles. At age 12, she appeared as the creepy little girl in 1994's Interview with the Vampire; she spent her adolescence learning her craft in diverse movies like Jumanji, Wag the Dog and The Virgin Suicides. After seeing footage of Dunst's strung-out scenes in Crazy/Beautiful, Disney executives called Stockwell to make sure their star wasn't actually partaking at work. "Before I would say, 'Action,' she'd be Kiki--perky and bright-eyed," recalls Stockwell. "Then cameras would roll...
...California. Still, Calkins isn't just content teaching his techno-pooch frat-boy tricks like kicking a ball or rolling over. He's into exploring Gibson's inner qualities: Calkins has backward-engineered his pet, methodically investigating his dog's software to see exactly what makes him sneeze or wag his tail...
...There is so much schmoozing going on that scant attention is paid to the awards themselves. But there are cheers when Soderbergh wins Best Direction. Russell Crowe's win draws mixed reactions. Some women gush with happiness. Most of the men glower. One wag at the table defends Crowe's honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark...
...cutting off access at 1 a.m. gives Masters one very subtle way to wag their fingers and say (as my own mother sometimes does), "Shouldn't you be in bed at 1 a.m. anyways?" Students will still be up at all hours, Masters know, but restricting UKA puts them in the comfortable position of closing their eyes and pretending their charges are nestled snugly in their own beds, all by themselves...