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Undertow: A

By Dan Zak · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

Has an American film renaissance started with David Gordon Green? Sure, there have been high-profile road signs in that direction over the past 10 years - Tarantino, Charlie Kaufman - but who but Green has shown such invention and versatility at such a young age? His "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls" were bellwethers. Now the 30-year-old has made "Undertow," a gothic Southern drama that shakes off the dead skin of current cinema.

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Diary of an Intern: Ashlee, don't blame the band

By Michael Vallebuona · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

Could you imagine if Ashlee Simpson was an intern in your office? I envision her at a neighboring cubicle, her rat's nest of a hairdo pooling on the floor beside her dirty Chuck Taylors. The phone would ring, and raising the handset to her bejeweled ear, she'd croak: "Hi, this is, like, Ashlee speaking!" I'd glare at her in hatred, only to be lost in the beak-like nose and butt-like chin that dominate her pinched, mannish face.

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Metro Brief: D.C. to hit the Target for retail shopping

By Emily Carone · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

Target will open its first store in D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams announced Wednesday. Target plans to break ground on the store in Columbia Heights this spring and open it in 2007, USA Today reported. The store will be publicly and privately financed.

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Interview: Jamie Foxx's big break

By Costa Caloudas | October 28

"Anybody got any shades?" asks Jamie Foxx. He borrows a pair, and suddenly the built 36-year-old is transformed into a scrawny 70-year-old Ray Charles, complete with a trembling, stammering voice and feeble body language. "The voice ... it's in the shades," Foxx said. These shades transform Foxx into Ray Charles -- the same way a cape transforms Clark Kent into the Man of Steel.

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Musicians jazzify 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' at GW

By Neal Fersko | October 28

The patrons of the George Washington University Lisner Auditorium watched as the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" emerged from the safety of the movie screen to stalk the theater in mind-blowing 3-D. Adding to the thrills of the night were the Jazz Passengers, who provided a lively new, in-house score to the 50-year-old creature feature.

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Drag queens reign in Dupont

October 28

Drag queens pulled up their fishnets and strapped on their sexiest stilettos and highest platforms in preparation for the annual 17th Street High-Heel Race in Dupont Circle Tuesday night. This tradition of cross-dressing to the nines and sprinting three blocks between Church and R streets had people packing the sidewalks for hours before and after the 9 p.m. race.

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Ray: B+

By Costa Caloudas | October 28

Biopics are a polarizing genre of film. They're either plagued with historical inaccuracies, bad impressions or bland scripts. A few have been great ("Rudy"), more have been good ("La Bamba," "Man on the Moon") and others have been god-awful ("Plath," "Dahmer"). And now, music great Ray Charles gets the biopic treatment.

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Broken curse spurs campus frenzy

By David Hodges & Phil Turner | October 28

Seconds after the Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse, an excited fan pulled the fire alarm in the Letts-Anderson complex and spilled nearly a thousand students onto the Letts-Anderson Quad and the SIS Annex. The victory marked the end of decades of tears, anguish and heartache over "The Curse of the Bambino" - the Sox's failure to win a World Series since trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. At AU, the reaction among many students was ecstatic. Led by chants of "Yankees suck" and "It's all over," an undulating crowd of around 50 students pumped their fists and formed a makeshift mosh pit, where they flagellated each other with arms, coats and bodies in an emotional frenzy of baseball redemption.

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'Ray' director envisions life of musician

By Costa Caloudas | October 28

"Taylor, I'm no angel and I don't want to be painted as such. Just tell the truth." Those were the words of Ray Charles some 15 years ago when director Taylor Hackford began the project of "Ray." While Charles was not looking to rewrite his history, Hackford was presented with a hurdle: How do you tell the story about the vulnerabilities of a man who acts like he has no vulnerabilities?

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RED SOX RED SOX

By Lester Russell Allen IV | October 28

Every now and again, I find it important to reprioritize the things you find important in life. Things like friends, family, schoolwork, and religion are all important, but it helps to figure out which of these things is most important to you. Personally, I reprioritized on Tuesday night, and I decided that the Red Sox were truly the best thing I had going for me.

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Golf ends fall season with another loss

By David Bergman | October 28

In what has become a sort of regular ritual, the AU Men's Golf team traveled to North Carolina with high hopes and came back with disappointment. Playing without senior and emotional leader Phil Kief, the Eagles stumbled and slipped their way to an 11th-place finish at the Old Dominion University/Seascape Collegiate Invitational in Kitty Hawk, N.C.

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Similar institutions do not share AU's fall break schedule

By ROBERT H. CHAMBERLAIN | October 28

If fall break is eliminated next year at AU, the new policy would also be somewhat unusual when compared with similar institutions. Three weeks ago, the Faculty Senate and the Graduate Leadership Council approved a proposal that would eliminate fall break and make Thanksgiving break a full week, The Eagle reported. University President Benjamin Ladner's cabinet has the final say over whether the proposal passes, according to David Taylor, Ladner's chief of staff.

The UFL and Why it's Good for the Sport

Section 202 hosts Connor Sturniolo and Gabrielle McNamee are joined by fellow Eagle staff member and phenomenal sports photographer, Josh Markowitz. Follow along as they discuss the United Football League and the benefits it provides for the world of professional football.

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