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...musical The East is Red. She also revived the once outlawed Beijing Dance Academy, filling dance slippers with the feet of peasant children groomed to be stalwarts of a fiercely proletarian Chinese ballet style. Among them was Li, plucked from grade school because, he surmises, he had long toes. Talent scouts dispatched to the villages believed digit size to be an important physical asset for a dancer. "For me, a peasant boy, communism truly was great," Li writes...
...Great talent often leads to typecasting, however, and in the aftermath of Sassy, Jun was inundated with scripts that called for a vivacious, semiviolent heroine with a slight drinking problem. Instead, Jun signed on for The Uninvited, a classic South Korean horror film that dealt with infanticide, suicide, parricide and severe wedding anxiety. The depressing film had a lukewarm performance at the box office, but the role proved she had range...
...champion of vlogging and founder of buzzmachine.com, a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
...Penn was a must just four games into the season. After shutting down the Quakers’ star Jewel Clark, the Crimson appeared to have the game in order, especially since none of Penn’s starters cracked double digits. But the Quakers subs played well beyond their talent, nailing clutch shot after clutch shot to shut down the Crimson comeback drive and winning 73-72, before one of their mothers tried to steal my game notes as a souvenir...
...We’re a team that pushes from all directions,” junior V4 stroke Meredith Coogan added. “The speed of the top boats is from not only their own talent, but the pressure from all around, including the novices and those not competing at the NCAAs...