Word: weekends
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...stint as the fiddler for Frank O'Brian's Spare Change Ensemble, he got the opportunity to perform for an audience of about 600 people at the Folk Life festival in Seattle this past Memorial Day weekend...
...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 the concept with teenagers earlier this year, they discovered that the kids were less than interested in a cheerleading movie. "They thought cheerleading was kind of death," says Universal's marketing president Marc Shmuger, who thus veered the campaign...
...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 in the mood to see it. You go, girls...
With the 5-1 win, Harvard now sits undefeated in a tie for first with No. 7 Princeton. The Crimson will be hard-pressed to beat the Ivy juggernaut that has posted a 41-1 league record since 1994, but Nagle's performance this past weekend makes anything seem possible...
Saturday's game versus Yale (3-1, 1-1 Ivy), which the Big Green lost 24-14, is one of Dartmouth's closer defeats, and it probably tasted rather sweet in comparison to the 48 points Penn scored on Dartmouth (0-4, 0-2) last weekend...