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...topic today is child stars, their appeal and limitations. In The Other Boleyn Girl, Natalie Portman, 26, and Scarlett Johansson, 23, play Anne and Mary Boleyn, one destined to be Henry VIII's second wife, the other his mistress. Penelope stars Christina Ricci, 28, in a contemporary fantasy about a girl who has a pig's snout for a nose because, as the family legend goes, a witch's curse had long ago fallen on her ancestors...
...Consider their résumés: Christina Ricci, born Feb. 12, 1980, first noticed when she was 10 in Mermaids (as the sister of another child siren, Winona Ryder), then certifying her kid stardom a year later as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. Natalie Portman, born June 9, 1981, zoomed to stardom in Luc Besson's Leon, a.k.a. The Professional, when she was 12. Scarlett Johansson, born Nov. 22, 1984, a leading actress at 11 as Manny in Manny & Lo, then at 13 as the troubled girl redeemed by Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. All three girls...
...though many kids find ways of getting attention, child stars didn't have to figure out the art of allure through painful improvisation; they were taught by pros. Johansson and Ricci both attended a Manhattan showbiz seminary called the Professional Children's School. ("And what are you studying, little Christina?" "How to be a professional child." "Well, don't stay up all night studying, or you won't look like...
...ECAC Tournament, having already won the regular season crown by going undefeated in conference play, the squad has no intentions to rest on its laurels.“We’re completely disregarding everything that’s been accomplished so far,” sophomore goalie Christina Kessler said. “We’re going into our first game of the season [tonight].”No. 1 Harvard will face Cornell in the first round of the ECAC playoffs, a best-out-of-three series at the Bright Hockey Center. The opening faceoff...
...Junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt, sophomore goaltender Christina Kessler, and senior defender Caitlin Cahow are all candidates for the award, which honors the best player in collegiate women’s hockey...