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...religious individuals were identified as anyone other than atheists or agnostics. But professors remain less spiritual than the general public—only 6.9 percent of the U.S. population identifies itself as agnostic or atheistic, according to a 2000 General Social Survey conducted by the National Opinion Research Center. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History Karen L. King said it is not surprising that there are more atheists and agnostics among professors than among the general public. King said that professors, who frequently engage in intellectual thought, would be more likely to question their own faith. Such questioning leads to defining...
...describing one witness as looking as "clean as Winn-Dixie chitlin...
...takes hold of it. Film people are not immune to sentiment, but they make pictures with kids because, well, they hope a sack of money will fall on them. A big project (like the Harry Potter series) can earn zillions, and even the smaller ones do O.K. Because of Winn-Dixie, about a motherless girl (AnnaSophia Robb) and her pet dog, was made for an estimated $15 million and pulled in $13 million in its Presidents' Day weekend debut--and it's not even very good. Dear Frankie, a Scottish drama about a fatherless deaf boy (Jack McElhone), has been...
...Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon) and Anna Paquin (The Piano) won supporting-actress Oscars on their first acting jobs. Standards change, and what was cute in the '30s can seem forced today. "I watched a Shirley Temple film the other night," says Trevor Albert, one of the producers of Winn-Dixie, "and I thought, 'God, was she an over-actor...
Finally, since a first film is a crash-course acting school, save the hardest bits till last. That's what director Wayne Wang did in Winn-Dixie: he let Robb ease in to the heavy lifting with early lighthearted scenes. "I was nervous until the day she did a scene of consequence," says producer Albert. "But in those scenes she was surrounded by very strong actors. So by the end of the movie she was a better actor than she was at the start." Wang would also hold Robb's hand, a technique that seemed to focus her attention...