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...points over the course of two games against RPI and Union. Who knows what records may lay in her future, but she can sure rack up the statistics. “She’s so good it’s scary,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “She has gotten so much better. She is so quick that she will come out of nowhere.” In an 11-0 rout of RPI on Saturday and a similar 10-0 drubbing of Union a day later, Vaillancourt had the perfect opportunity to showcase...
...Jeez, doesn't this have 'Oscar, please, Oscar' written all over it?" snickered one partygoer at the Stone event. All the elements were there: an armada of Paramount publicists, reporters from the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter and Variety, as well as members of other award-giving groups such as the Hollywood Foreign Press (who give out the Golden Globes) and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (the BAFTAs...
...Paramount chairman Brad Grey introduced Stone, who took to a small stage and good-naturedly thanked his producers, screenwriter, actors and others involved with the film. So far, the $63 million-budgeted World Trade Center has made $70 million in the U.S. and about the same amount overseas - hardly a blockbuster. But it garnered enough critical praise to make it a potential Oscar contender...
...After Stone spoke, he turned the platform over to Craig Armstrong, composer of the original score for the film. The crowd seemed attentive and somber as Armstrong performed the elegiac theme to WTC, but the moment was short-lived. As soon as Armstrong launched into his second number, the restaurant returned to its previous state of noisy reverie. An encore was unnecessary. Everyone in attendance heard the message loud and clear: The Race...
...Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first official African-American regiments to fight in the Civil War (as depicted in the film “Glory”). Shaw is actually buried in a mass grave near where he was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, but his engraved stone depicts a Classical sparring-match of sorts. Other, simpler tombstones mark the graves of Dorothea Dix, social activist for the mentally ill, and Bernard Malamud, author of the baseball’s classic novel “The Natural.” In addition to the on-site history lesson...