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Jude Law -- a lasting star power?

By Caroline Maxwell | November 4, 2004

In case you haven't noticed, Jude Law is in just about every movie this season. Moviegoers know him well from films such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Road to Perdition" and "Cold Mountain." What you perhaps did not know is that Law is planning on exploding this season.

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Artists and others raise their voices for the election

By Caroline McKenzie | November 2, 2004

Campaign trail theme songs are nothing new. Celebrity artists were even making a splash back in 1960, when Sinatra himself provided JFK with the tune "High Hopes." Today, Bruce Springsteen -- the politically-conscious "Boss" who famously refused Ronald Reagan the right to use "Born in the U.S.A." on his campaign -- is providing Kerry with the trail theme "No Surrender." And who could possibly forget Al Gore using Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" on his 1992 campaign for veep? So artists' participation in politics is far from a new commodity.

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Cords and Decibelles to sing at Fall Fling

By Kelsey Noonan | October 29, 2004

Although many Dartmouth students may scream themselves hoarse at the Homecoming game this weekend, the Dartmouth Cords and Decibelles will be saving their voices for the biggest a cappella concert of the year. Each year, the Fall Fling a cappella concert fills Spaulding Auditorium with "doo-wops," "didees" and a few hundred students to kick off Saturday night's festivities.

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'Sideways': Wine country with a full bouquet of characters

By Nicholas S. Desai | October 25, 2004

Alexander Payne, filmmaker and self-proclaimed follower of film auteur ideal, visited the Hopkins Center Saturday night to receive the Dartmouth Film Award and to screen his latest film, "Sideways," a darker kind of romantic comedy that makes the adventures of middle-aged wine enthusiasts appealing even to late-adolescent Keystone enthusiasts. Payne's films explore subcultures, whether high school politics in "Election" or abortion activism in "Citizen Ruth." His ability to delineate well-known but rarely depicted situations is in full swing here as he takes on the humdrum existence of hotel living and briefly revisits the world of old people even more hilariously than "About Schmidt" does. The main culture portrayed in "Sideways" is that of a certain kind of Californian whose recreations include wine and divorce.

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Going downriver: 'Creek' a success

By Matt Hill | October 21, 2004

One could approach "Mean Creek" as I did, with a certain set of expectations. Certainly, the advertisements and trailers for the film invoke the feeling that the independent film, being the directorial debut of Jacob Aaron Estes, will ultimately culminate in a convenient and predictably tragic climax that catalyzes the central character's coming of age.

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Asking around campus: Frat sounds

By Jaime Padgett | October 14, 2004

It's Friday night and the Daniel Webster in you is just rearing to go. Go? "Go where," you ask? Why would a party aficionado such as yourself waste precious nighttime hours wandering in search of the hottest spot?

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'Wimbledon' serves and faults

By Alex Friedman | October 6, 2004

First Preview: 6:40 p.m. First Watch Glance: 7:25 p.m. Director Richard Loncraine attempts to win a Grand Slam with his aptly titled film, "Wimbledon." Unfortunately, what he serves up is more of a double fault.

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'Palookaville' finds Cook closer to the gutter than the stars

By Nick Desai | October 5, 2004

I'm going to go out on a limb here and advance the oft-debated contention that if there were devised a grand artistic sequence of musical deeds that needed to be accomplished, remaking Steve Miller's surreal anthem "The Joker" as a hip, psuedo-dance song would not have been scheduled in the year 2004.

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