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“My character in ‘Sarah Marshall’ wouldn’t have been interesting to see throughout a whole movie,” Hill explained, “He was sort of... one-dimensional. He was more the funny, weird stalker-ish guy. Aaron?...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brand and Hill Hit Boston Before 'Greek' | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Beauvoir, for her part, took on the question by denying its validity. Rejecting essentialist explanations for the female condition, Beauvoir famously declared, “one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” The “eternal feminine”—those behaviors...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Situating Sex | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Danny Glover’s character, Uncle Russell, exclaims at one point in the film, “I’m family, goddammit,” amidst a string of other more choice words. As “Death at a Funeral” continues, it becomes clear that...

Author: By Chris A. Henderson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Death at a Funeral | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

When it comes to sketching Jewish tradition, and the life of New Walden’s Hasidim, however, Goldstein’s understanding is slightly weaker. She gets the names of Hasidic customs wrong—dubbing the mystical Hasidic custom of waiting to cut a boy’s...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goldstein Opens Up Religious Discussion in ‘36 Arguments’ | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Carson also brings her translator’s eye to the words of her emotionally and physically distant brother. “Because our conversations were few (he phoned me maybe 5 times in 22 years) I study his sentences the ones I remember as if I’d...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Anne Carson’s ‘Nox’ Is a Creative Tribute and Farewell | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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