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...proved difficult to remake the East Berlin neighborhood to look like 1989 - all the parking meters had to be removed, for example. The key moment in the film, when the mother sees a Soviet helicopter carrying away a huge bust of Lenin, took weeks to shoot because of weather problems and a malfunctioning Russian chopper. Goodbye Lenin! won the Blue Angel, the award for the best European film, at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival in February. And critics are wowed. "It is grippingly funny, fantastically grotesque and endlessly moving," said the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. How will it play outside Deutschland...
Dartboard was delighted to cautiously expose sun-deprived skin this week after months of brisk New England weather. Unfortunately, while tempting the melanoma gods, Dartboard was also subjected to the perennial bellyaching of pale Harvard youth: If only we were in Southern California right now—it would be like this every...
...though they’re exiled on the East), Dartboard does not stick up for the ray-soaked wasteland and wishes eastcoasters and westcoasters would just get over it. Southern California doesn’t deserve such reverence. It more than makes up for its brilliant weather with disgusting urban sprawl, choking traffic, pollution, aesthetic debauchery and an intellectually stifling “laid back” atmosphere. The city is a huge expanse of strip malls, crumbling homes and apartment buildings that were in bad taste to begin with, crammed freeways and unbelievably crowded public schools. Sure, rich...
...There are two things that will bring people out to see you,” Stupor said yesterday. “One is a winning team. The other is nice weather. And that’s not necessarily in that order...
...being an integral piece of school curriculum is not new to Lowry. The author’s Newberry Prize-winning novel, The Giver, about a community that, in order to end conflict, gives up colors, weather, choices and love, is read at schools throughout the world. “They read The Giver in Germany,” Lowry says, “as the beginning of their unit on World War II—the teachers use the community in the book as an example of the effects of totalitarian rule to soften the blow of upcoming lessons...