Word: film
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...number of Harvard student groups celebrated National Coming Out Day yesterday with rainbow streamers, stickers and special events like teas and film screenings--but without the controversial posters that the event featured last year...
Other activities conducted during Coming Out Day included teas, dinners, socials, as well as film and television screenings at various locations around campus...
...things considered, Dreamworks has selected a fortuitous release date for their film. The Contender opens less than four weeks before November's presidential election and at a date close enough to President Clinton's impeachment trial for the issues of responsibility, respect and accountability to still ring brilliantly clear in the minds of American citizens. Hopefully this film will succeed in reminding us that beside the ingenuity to solve the Medicare crisis and the ability to pronounce Kostunica properly, Americans want a candidate who will restore the respectability to the White House...
...clever, well-refined script. Screenwriter Jessica Bendinger tapped into racial conflicts and moral dilemmas with her story of an ambitious white high school cheerleader (Kirsten Dunst), who discovers that her team has been stealing routines from a group of black cheerleaders on a rival squad. "We made a good film for the right price," says Marc Abraham, one of the producers who would've been perfectly happy had the film raked in $40 million. But good scripts don't always translate to box office success (see last weekend's grosses for "Almost Famous"). When the marketing minds at Universal tested...
...film has held up because of favorable word of mouth, and because we in the media have played catch-up with a movie most of us ignored in the beginning. Kirsten Dunst appeared on "The Tonight Show" early in the film's run. Other members of the cast scored spots on MTV. Entertainment shows recycled footage from a bouncy press junket that had been staged prior to opening weekend at UCLA with legions of real cheerleaders. Also, of course, the cheerleading movie got lucky. Like all monstrously profitable films, it arrived quite by accident at a time when audiences were...