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...Holocaust Memorial Museum. It's hard to imagine a more difficult architectural commission: design a museum devoted to the Holocaust that is also a fitting memorial to its victims -- and make it beautiful and decorous, and put it on the Mall in Washington, which has heretofore been reserved for stone commemorations of American goodness (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln) and American tragedy (Vietnam). And it's hard to imagine a more successful job of it than that managed by architect Freed, a partner of I.M. Pei's. With its exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum, Freed's museum is neither a pious...
...working on some beginner's stubble. For Goblet director Mike Newell, shooting him is like shooting a moving target. "I've just been working on a scene which we shot in our first week, and Dan still looks the little kid that he was in Sorcerer's Stone," says Newell, who's probably best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral. "Now, 11 months later, he doesn't look like that at all. And that scene of him comes two-thirds of the way through the movie. So he starts as a kid of 15, then he gets younger, then...
Still, Kilmer admits that he has mellowed since The Doors in 1991, when Oliver Stone, of all people, said he was pushy. Stone, however, has said he enjoyed working with him in last year's Alexander. "Now I know more about directing," says Kilmer, who--of course--wants to make his own films. "Now I know if the pressure is coming up not to ask the same question nine times like I used to." Kiss Kiss's Black says Kilmer was an asset, even if he was sometimes weird, calling the director at home in strange voices, which Black eventually...
...violent death came to Kala Dhaka, in spades. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas. Entire villages were devastated; in an instant, stone houses turned into burial mounds. The Indus river, flowing at the bottom of the valleys, recalls one tribal elder, Mohammed Said, "looked like water boiling inside a tea kettle...
...overwhelmed Division I-newbie Robert Morris (0-5-0, 0-0-0 CHA) by a score of 7-0 in the season opener at Bright Hockey Center.“It’s a good start for us,” Crimson coach Katey Stone said. “We got a lot of kids a lot of playing time. I just said to the kids, though, ‘It’s only going to get tougher from here on.’”Harvard’s eight rookies saw their first collegiate action...