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(06/10/11 2:00am)
I spent the month of April this year racing on foot across Morocco with a camera, working as a television producer on ABC's upcoming adventure-race show, "Expedition Impossible." For 20 days straight, I tried to catch my breath, chasing firemen, professional football players, an 18-year-old girl from Kansas and famous, blind mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer across sand dunes and around ancient Kasbahs.
(06/10/06 9:00am)
Four years ago, a year after walking across the Dartmouth commencement stage, I wrote an essay for The Dartmouth titled "One Year Later," in which I wrote about spending my post-grad summer with a girlfriend at Dartmouth without any classes to worry about, getting trapped in Europe on Sept. 11, 2001, the differing directions friends go after graduation, and how thinking you have your life figured out as an undergraduate is a big mistake. Now, in the series' second essay, I'm looking back at the five years since I graduated.
(06/09/02 9:00am)
Upon graduating last year, I had everything all figured out. I planned to spend the summer working at a film studio in Santa Monica, then take a quick vacation traveling Europe, and finally start working for Microsoft in Seattle in the fall.
(05/29/01 9:00am)
This article contains sexually explicit material. If this type of material offends you, you should not read this piece.
(05/18/01 9:00am)
While the winning scripts for the Eleanor Frost Playwriting Festival have been uneven in the past, this year's collection -- "Josephine's Last Rites" by Benjamin Mills '03, "Youth N Asia" by Andrew Chu '01 and "Artemisia's Muse" by Sabrina Peric '03 -- are all consistent, high-quality one-acts with remarkable quality, especially for undergraduate work. In addition to the insightful scripts, the plays' productions are also top-notch, resulting in a refreshing evening of live theater that clocks in at just over two hours.
(05/17/01 9:00am)
The first compact disc I bought was R.E.M.'s "Out of Time," and I admittedly bought it for the bouncy radio single "Shiny Happy People" that made many "real" R.E.M. fans nauseated. But after listening to the treasure chest of incredible tracks on the album that differentiated themselves from mainstream fare, including "Low," "Near Wild Heaven," and "Belong," R.E.M. managed to change my taste in music forever.
(05/03/01 9:00am)
I'm not sure if I will be able to make it through the next five weeks of my life. As with all good things, CBS's "Survivor: The Australian Outback" will cease with tonight's episode, and there's a lot of crying going on in my dorm room lately: Colby's crying about missing his mother, Tina's crying about missing Doritos (and essentially anything edible), Keith's crying over the engagement to his girlfriend; and of course, my crying over the poignancy of the "Survivor" contestants crying, my crying over Elisabeth's recent exit from the show, and my crying about trying to make it through the final five weeks of my college career and beyond without "Survivor" to keep me company during lonely Thursday nights.
(04/17/01 9:00am)
At the end of my previous three-episode "Survivor: The Australian Outback" recaps, I flexed my television savvy, challenging CBS to keep "Survivor" interesting.
(03/29/01 10:00am)
By now, they're famous. Elisabeth, Rodger, Nick, Keith, Tina, Colby, Amber, and Jerri are the only castaways remaining on CBS's "Survivor: The Australian Outback." With only seven episodes remaining, their peers have voted half of the contestants off the show already. Let's take a look at what has happened during the last three episodes (last week's episode simply recapped the first seven episodes).
(03/27/01 10:00am)
Abstract art often inevitably draws comments such as, "That's not so great; I could do that myself!" from average museum visitors. To some critics, the Abstract Expressionism invented by Jackson Pollock looks more like the mistaken scribbling and a child's paint spilling instead of an artistic genius. Nevertheless, director and star of "Pollock" Ed Harris obviously is not one of those critics.
(02/28/01 11:00am)
When it comes to capitalism and materialism, Hollywood is one of the most hypocritical places on Earth.
(02/20/01 11:00am)
This weekend, I had lunch with an ex-girlfriend. Because we rarely talk to each other anymore, the meal was initially a bit awkward. But when the subject of CBS's "Survivor: The Australian Outback" suddenly surfaced, the conversation exploded into a fury of excitement, friendly banter and a feeling of camaraderie and chemistry.
(02/19/01 11:00am)
One of the creepiest and most frightening movie villains ever, the cannibalistic Dr. Hannibal Lecter from 1991's "Silence of the Lambs" has finally returned.
(02/07/01 11:00am)
In "The Truman Show," it's not long after the show's creator, Christof, announces "Cue the sun!" that his perfect world goes haywire.
(01/16/01 11:00am)
"Thirteen Days" screenwriter David Self writes in his script that the sun rises every morning due only to the will of good men, and this tiny stronghold of well-meaning individuals spends their days saving the world from evil. One simple mistake, one tiny misjudgment by one of them, and humankind may never see the sun again.
(01/08/01 11:00am)
In Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," the U.S. drug czar's daughter has a boyfriend who suggests to her, "I want to have sex and do a [cocaine] hit right as we're both coming." In the bleak world of Soderbergh's film, these are the kind of romantic pickup lines prep school kids use when they can obtain crack cocaine more easily than alcohol.
(10/17/00 9:00am)
In these cynical times, we think we've seen it all. We've made it through the 1990s, in which popular media massaged us into thinking we were smart, jaded and sophisticated, and in the '00s, we're even above that 20th-century sophistication. After over 100 years of movies, it can seem that there's little room for innovation remaining in the world of cinema, especially after taking in this year's crop of films.
(08/22/00 9:00am)
Based solely on a plot summary, Tarsem Singh's "The Cell" sounds like yet another entry into the overstuffed serial killer film genre. In the film, FBI agent Peter Novak (Vince Vaughn from "Swingers") tracks a sadistic serial killer who kidnaps women and then drowns them. With little time available to locate the next to-be-victim, Peter attempts to create a window into the serial killer's mind by using a futuristic device designed for coma-therapy. Using the machine, child therapist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) literally enters the thoughts of the serial killer to determine his motives and the location of the kidnapped woman.
(08/08/00 9:00am)
REDMOND, Wa. -- It's tough to resign yourself to mediocrity. Most Americans spend their years in school learning how to be individuals, how to be leaders and how to make their mark on the world. But in the end, the problem is that there's simply too many of us. The reality is that we cannot all change the world, because there's not enough room for two of Bill Gates, or two Presidents of the United States, or even two "West Wing" actors to play the President of the United States.
(07/27/00 9:00am)
I admit it: I am obsessed with CBS's "Survivor." Every Wednesday, I rush home from my summer internship to catch the opening seconds of the introduction sequence. I get goose bumps as the "Survivor" theme song plays while newly ousted Jenna's teary face glances toward the camera as the castaways' names flash across the screen.