Editor's Note 30: on goodbyes
(04/28/08 4:00am)
These are the last words that I will write for the Chronicle.
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These are the last words that I will write for the Chronicle.
The slant-roof cave of 301 Flowers has been my Wednesday night home for the past year. I have spent time slaving away on content and layout, struggling over headlines and captions and worrying over correct AP style and exciting ledes. I can tell you that correct Chronicle style forbids first-person ledes, but this isn't the Chronicle-this is recess.
Allow me to make a broad, generalizing and potentially racially offensive statement: White people love Journey, and I don't understand why.
Jackie Chan. Jet Li. One screen. One big let down. The fight scenes were great-like all the new martial-arts movies coming out these days-but even the spectacle of a white-clad Jet Li sparring with a Rastafarian Jackie Chan is not enough to salvage this storyline. But let's keep to what matters most-; the moves those guys were throwing were freakin' sweet! Seriously, watching the Praying Mantis style take on Tiger style should be a prerequisite of achieving full manhood. No life is complete without experiencing the awesomeness of Asian women battling each other and wishing you were the token white guy in the film.
I really don't want to write this Editor's Note. The entire protest has me in a tizzy and I am not even sure what a tizzy is.
There are many double standards that persist in modern society.
There is a long list of many major collaborations that may be topped by what is about to come to Duke: R. Kelly and Jay-Z, Aerosmith and Run-DMC, Linkin Park and Jay-Z, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Peanut Butter and Jay-Z (has yet to occur, but is most likely delicious).
There is something rotten in the state of hip-hop.
For giants, these guys seem awfully plain, but don't judge them by their meek appearances. Paul Scheer, Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel (stars of MTV's Human Giant) have some of the largest comic personalities in the land.
In a recent visit to Chapel Hill, while on the Funny Or Die Comedy Tour, Semi-Pro star Will Ferrell spoke with recess' Varun Lella about sports, growing up and future roles.
As you may or may not have noticed -if you are an average Duke student I am going to bet on the latter-recess has unabashedly supported Barack "Hussein in the Membrane" Obama in this current presidential election.
There is always an argument whether or not innovation is an acceptable art form.
People at this campus always complain about the type of shows being done partially or fully with student money. Why should we suffer through a crappy pop-rock band like Boys Like Girls, when we could get critic darlings Arcade Fire for the same amount?
Now that the writers' strike is over, it's back to business for Hollywood. As everyone knows, for better or for worse, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards is the biggest night in the industry. The 80th Oscars, hosted by Jon Stewart, promises to be a night of glitz, glamour and God shout-outs. recess weighs in on the nominees with Film Editor Andrew Hibbard and, the man-in-charge, Editor Varun Lella.
From the Duke Lacrosse scandal to basketball games on ESPN to the latest Sex Workers Art Show hullabaloo, Duke students are used to being on television. Now Blue Devils have the chance to move from news stories to reality television with a spot on MTV's The Real World.
It's the time for red and pink, flowers and chocolates, stuffed animals and reciprocal sexual favors-it's Valentine's Day. For some of us Valentine's is known as Singles Awareness Day-a fact that we open-hearted are reminded of every year... 21 cold, lonely years.
This is one of the few weeks that we are not running an article on Duke Performance's Soul Power series and that is a crying shame. Well, I am not actually going to cry about it, so that makes it more like a dry-eyed shame.
When one hears the phrase "T.V. movie," images of battered women from the Lifetime channel and warm and fuzzy family comedies a la the Hallmark channel are conjured-clearly the pinnacle of innovative filmmaking today. However, HBO's Bernard and Doris-that's Doris Duke (Susan Sarandon) as in "Duke University" Duke-is a refreshing alternative to the overly-glitzy current cinema offerings. The nuances of the acting performances and the Hugh Costello-penned script elevate the film above its peers-both on the silver and small screens.
I like to hug celebrities.
This is not the space for an obituary.