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...Rachel Griffiths, playing mother to a man five years older than her?) Everything seems to be right for Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source of the marijuana. The good times roll—with the profits from dealing, Jung and Barbara...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLOW explodes onto the Big Screen | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Rodriguez, however, pushes into uncharted territory through the cotton-candy dreamscape world of his impish villain Floop (a marvelous Alan Cumming), a Pee-Wee Herman clone who serves as ringmaster for a Teletubbies-styled kiddie show and dreams of-what else-world domination. Some of the elements in his towering, Gothic seaside castle reflect a vibrant visual imagination, most notably a sprawling floor that proves to be composed of giant jigsaw puzzle pieces. Others, such as the robot minions whose limbs consist of nothing but thumbs, smack of watered-down Tim Burton...

Author: By William Gienapp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Milk on the Rocks, Please: Shaken, Not Stirred | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...There were bodies everywhere, some three deep, and an American passport and food from the plane all over our front garden," he says. Forever in his memory will be "the lass lying on the road as though she were asleep, without a mark on her body except for a wee hole on the side of her forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Town That Can't Forget | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

When the Bushes arrived for coffee Saturday morning, Bill Clinton was still nursing a paper cut on his finger. He had sliced it during a packing frenzy in the wee hours of Friday, and his friend Harry Thomason had tried to close the cut with Super Glue. Sorting his stuff through the night--an usher said the White House felt like a 7-Eleven all week--Clinton told a story about every gewgaw he was piling into boxes marked LIBRARY, CHAPPAQUA and WASHINGTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadow Moves On | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Minutes before the speech, Gore called Bush and conceded to him for a second time--the first coming in the wee hours of the morning 36 days ago, after television networks initially declared Bush the winner of Florida...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Concedes, Bush Vows Unity | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

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