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In 'Seabiscuit', novel outshines screenplay

By Mark Sweeney | August 4, 2003

Whenever an adaptation of a popular novel hits theaters, the first question on the mind of the audience is typically, "Is the movie as good as the book?" This question is especially relevant with "Seabiscuit," as Laura Hillenbrand's novel -- on which the film is based -- was a massive success just two years ago. In this case, the answer to the aforementioned question is simple: the novel is far superior to the motion picture.

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'Wedding' Serves Up another Delicious Slice of 'Pie'

By Elliot Olshansky | July 31, 2003

After making a splash with outrageous sexual exploits in 1999's "American Pie," Universal Pictures and screenwriter Adam Herz changed their recipe for 2001's "American Pie 2." The sexual comedy was certainly present, but it took a backseat to the growing romance between band-geek-who-never-joined-the-band Jim Levinstein (Jason Biggs) and flute-playing nymphomaniac Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan). With Jim and Michelle set to tie the knot in 'American Wedding,' the romance takes center stage, but the hard-hitting sexual comedy that made the first "American Pie" a hit makes a roaring comeback to make "American Wedding" a thoroughly enjoyable movie. "Wedding" hits the ground running, with Jim preparing to propose to Michelle after three years of dating.

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Storm King drenches visitors with deluge of delights

By Shaunak Mewada | July 15, 2003

As part of the Summer Arts Initiative, Hood Museum of Art director Derrick Cartwright led a trip to the Storm King Art Center, an outdoor sculpture museum in Mountainville, N.Y., last Saturday. The Summer Arts Initiative consists of a series of events titled "Art and the Land", which include performances, trips and art hikes, all highlighting the relationship between the arts and the environment. The trip to Storm King was composed of a group of about 30 students and area residents, ranging from professors and arts experts to complete novices like this reporter, and the mild summer day was perfect for visiting an outdoor museum. Storm King, named after a neighboring mountain, was founded in 1960.

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Getting To Know...

By Mark Sweeney | July 11, 2003

Following in the footsteps of such journalistic luminaries as Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters and Ed Bradley, The Dartmouth's Mark Sweeney catches up with the big names on campus and asks the questions that others have too much professionalism or integrity to ask.

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Film rings true, shows lives of refugee Jews

By Antonio Valla | July 11, 2003

While World War II rages on the European continent, Walter Redlich and his wife Jettel and daughter Regina are safe from the conflict, tucked away on an isolated farm in Kenya. But the circumstances that landed them in this foreign land and the challenges that awaited them when they arrived none of them could have predicted. In "Nowhere in Afrca," we meet a Jewish family that fled Germany just before the infamous 1938 Night of Broken Glass and the closure of the Third Reich's borders. Though the Nazi oppression they fled was severe, the harsh African landscape presents problems of its own.

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Old-Timers revisit rural pleasures at local country fair

By Megh Duwadi and Dan Knecht | July 3, 2003

HANOVER CENTER, N.H. -- Audrey Gilman has been watching beasts of burden do her family's dirty work for the past 34 years. It's only on special occasions, though, that she can sit in on the process for pure enjoyment. Lounging in a lawn chair Saturday at the 42nd annual Old Timer's Fair with her husband and several of their close friends, Gilman, of Salmonton, N.H., cheered on this year's prizewinning oxen as they dragged concrete slabs back and forth across a dusty field.

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Boyle's '28 Days Later' twists, turns and thrills, but lacks depth

By Peter Jenks | July 1, 2003

A man wakes up naked in a hospital room in London, only to find himself alone. Confused, he tears the needles from his arm and begins wandering through the ward, discovering that it is completely abandoned. Passing outside into downtown London, he finds the streets just as vacant as the building he escaped.

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Entertainment News

By Compiled by David Klein | June 27, 2003

1)The other day when I went to see the Hulk, this dude wouldn't shut up and kept yelling stuff like "Hulk, you need to chill" and "Hulk, you rule." Finally I turned to him and said, "Listen, man, you don't need to scream.

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'Horrors' to take over Bentley

By David Archwamety | May 28, 2003

Much singing, running, laughing and running will be heard in Bentley Theater tonight as Dartmouth's musical theater group, the Harlequins, presents two performances of "Little Shop of Horrors." The Howard Ashman and Alan Menken-penned musical, which is based on the 1960 Roger Corman movie, traces the story of Seymour Krelbourn (Adam Ballard '00), a lowly Skid Row flower-shop employee, as he finds a "strange and interesting plant" after a solar eclipse and subsequently rises to fame. Katy Flynn-Meketon '05, one of the student directors, said "Little Shop of Horrors" is the biggest show the Harlequins has done in recent years.

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