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Booted: Dartmouth alum will not be a 'Survivor'

By John Teti | November 5, 2001

Those clever "Survivor" producers tantalized TV Guide readers last week by telling them in the episode description that "a member of the Samburu tribe cracks under pressure." Who cracks? The obvious answer is Lindsey, who doesn't deal well with the psychological aftermath of Tribal Council.

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Third time's a charm for Emmys

By Rebecca Leffler | November 5, 2001

"Welcome to the 53rd, 54th and 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards," joked host Ellen DeGeneres as she greeted those famous faces of the entertainment industry last night at the Shubert Theater in Los Angeles. After weeks of anticipation, the 53rd Annual Emmy Awards finally aired.

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Silent film legend Brownlow to be honored at Loew

By Sam Lederer | November 2, 2001

Silent Film is a media of expression that too often goes unnoticed as big-budget Hollywood productions continue to dominate the favor of the American viewing public. Kevin Brownlow, however, is trying to counteract this trend through his many documentaries and films about the Silent Film era.

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Hughes bros. make hellish film

By Sarah Betts | October 31, 2001

Johnny Depp and Heather Graham deliver disappointingly flat performances in "From Hell," a thriller inspired by the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. Depp plays Frederick Abberline, a moody, opium-addict investigator whose bouts of clairvoyance help him solve the murders of five prostitutes in late 19th-century London.

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Flaming Idiots offer scorching performance

By Karla Kingsley | October 31, 2001

"OK, everyone turn to the person on your left or your right and give them a big hug yes, you two guys in front, we want to see some male bonding," Gyro (Rob Williams) instructed the crowd at last night's performance from The Flaming Idiots in Spaulding. Gyro was "the tiny, cute one" of the Flaming Idiots, along with Pyro (Jon O'Connor), a goofy version of Chandler (from "Friends") and Walter (Kevin Hunt), a guy with really, really big hair. The trio was welcomed to Hanover with a full house. In less than two seconds, we were all transported to the "Idiot Olympics," where Pyro was to show off his skill at coin catching, a sport that requires "pluck, determination, and a willingness to live in your parents' basement for the rest of your life." He amazed the crowd and the other two Idiots with his "profile," nicely apperent in his spandex wrestling suit, while catching up to six coins at a time as strains of the theme from "Chariots of Fire" played in the background. The Flaming Idiots had a great mix of jokes, acting, audience participation, and truly amazing feats, but the audience still was rather subdued.

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The Cranberries hit sour note on latest release

By Carl Burnett | October 30, 2001

On their fifth album, "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee," the Cranberries venture little and gain nothing. The group responsible for the 1994 hit album "No Need to Argue" had such a consistent sound on their first three albums that one had to wonder whether they were only capable of making the same record over and over again.

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Man or Astroman? prepares Commonground landing

By Janos Marton | October 29, 2001

Hailing from somewhere in outer space, sci-fi surf rockers Man or Astroman? will play Dartmouth College for the first time tonight. Band members Birdstuff, CoCo the Electric Monkey Wizard, Trace Reading and Blazar claim to be aliens whose intergalactic spacecraft crashed outside Auborn, Alabama in 1992.

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Marsalis jazzes up Spaulding

By Christopher Danforth | October 29, 2001

Do not ever let anyone tell you that Wynton Marsalis is not the greatest musician in our galaxy. Wynton is a trumpet player and jazz composer from the Marsalis family (of Ellis and Branford), leader of a big band and jazz septet, artistic director of New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center and father of three.

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Samburu sends 'SOS' to world

By John Teti | October 29, 2001

Fun facts: the Samburu and Boran tribes of Kenya adhere to monotheistic religions. While some Samburu have been converted to Christianity, and some Boran to Islam, others observe traditional beliefs -- which still place faith in one God. So where are Linda's "gods and goddesses" and "spirits" of Africa? The Harvard career counselor and member of Dartmouth's Class of 1978 keeps jabbering about the deep meaning of Africa.

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Kidjo energizes Spaulding crowd

By Carl Burnett | October 24, 2001

"If you don't come up here and dance for this next one, we're not gonna play," Anglique Kidjo warned the audience near the end of her performance in Spaulding Auditorium last night. She hardly need have asked. Kidjo, a Beninese-born, Brooklyn-based world-pop singer of renown, had worked the crowd into a frenzy by then, taking a nearly full auditorium divided almost evenly between Dartmouth students and Upper Valley residents and bringing it to its feet.

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'The Last Castle' certainly not the first film of its kind

By N.F.S. Knight | October 24, 2001

Yes, Bobby Redford is at it again. In his new film, "The Last Castle," he is once more attacking the American prison system only this time, from the other side of the bars. In 1980's "Brubaker," his first philippic against the penal system, Redford played a young warden dead-set on reforming a corrupt Southern prison.

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'Riding in Cars with Boys' coasts along smoothly

By Kelly Swartz | October 23, 2001

Drew Barrymore's character, Beverly, the focus of "Riding in Cars with Boys," struggles to come to terms with and accept her true identity. The film opens with a grown-up Barrymore riding alongside her son, Jason (Adam Garcia), in, surprise, a car.

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Anastasio, Claypool and Copeland a 'Grand' failure

By David Klein | October 23, 2001

Oysterhead's debut release, "The Grand Pecking Order," is a failure of XFL proportions. To label the band a "supergroup" would have been appropriate over a year ago when the trio of guitarist/vocalist Trey Anastasio bassist/vocalist Les Claypool and drummer Stewart Copeland -- each extraordinary musicians in their own right -- debuted at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to much fanfare. That show, which featured a spirited mix of original songs and covers -- including a ferocious version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" -- left many salivating for more. But with their first studio effort, it seems Oysterhead should have been a one-shot deal. There is but one moment on "The Grand Pecking Order" that makes the release appear to be a worthwhile experiment.

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Rift between young and old brings bad tribal blood

By John Teti | October 22, 2001

"Well I ain't worried about it -- this is just a game!" That's how Tom explained away his forgiveness of Kim (Boran) after she fell during the reward challenge (and thereby broke one of last week's rules). Who cares if we starve?

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