Word: act
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Lenny Levine, the fourteen year-old hero of Just Looking, declares to his teacher that his goal for the summer is "to witness an act of love". Lenny means that he wants to watch people have sex. Predictably, Lenny's words turn out to be truer than he intended. He finds that love is not only more accessible to him than sex, it is ultimately more important...
...only story that is miraculous because we needed a Jewish kid from New York. We were in New York with a very low budget and we were looking at Jewish and Italian kids, anybody that had an ethnic look. But we couldn't find a kid that could act or was funny. Ryan is from Oklahoma and is not a Jew. We got avideotape from him early in the process and we didn't even open it. But then we had five days left and we didn't have a Lenny. So almost at the choke we said open...
...fits in where it fits in. If somebody said you could be the most successful director in the world but you could never act again, I'd say "Pass!" But I gave up trying to orchestrate a career...
...collective band-mind faced a new problem, however. There would be no sexy "R"s and "n"s rolling off of the lips without sexy tunes to accompany them. During the five years that the Humming has been touring as a live act, we have generated over a 150 songs; choosing the right tunes promised to be a daunting task of negotiating intra-band politics and differing musical identities. We worked out a one- through five-star system, and quickly narrowed the choices down to 39-still not exactly a helpful number when preparing for an album...
...issues in mind. I believe a termbill hike would be a good thing, and I believe that the council deserves the ability to raise the fee along with inflation--but I do not believe that to assume such powers without student input through a referendum would be a responsible act...