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Caught with your pants down: 'Seven minutes in heaven'

By Connie Hess · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

Making out is a lost art. We received our diplomas and entered the real world, leaving behind high school days when making out meant something. Remember when gossip on Monday mornings was who spent "seven minutes in heaven" instead of who was sexiled Saturday night? What happened to those days?

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By Lester Russell Allen IV · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

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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Interview with 'Saw' Filmmakers

By Dyane Jean-Francois · Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004

"Saw" is an exhilarating ride through the minds of two very talented, disturbed Australian men, screenwriter Leigh Whannell and director James Wan. Despite the fact that these filmmakers enjoyed writing and watching their twisted tale, they emphasized that they are "well adjusted individuals."

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Rocky Horror Picture Show Club kicks off Halloween

By Megan Slack and Laura J. Dugger | October 28

Men prance about in fishnets and corsets and half-dressed women lounge in their skivvies. But this isn't the high heel race in Dupont. It's a rehearsal for AU students' production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in Ward 2. This Halloween weekend, the Rocky Horror Picture Show Club will present the production on campus, after three years of planning by a group of seniors united by their passion for the show.

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

By Michael Vallebuona | October 28

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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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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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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'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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Undertow: A

By Dan Zak | October 28

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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Sideways: B

By Dan Zak | October 28

Miles is a guy who talks wine like any other guy would talk cars - the '95 Pinot, the '61 Chableau, the color, the rarity, the finish. But there is a reason he prefers to make a hobby of vintages. You can't get drunk on Camaros.

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Stumping through pumpkins in 'Kerry country'

By Megan Slack & Jen Turner | October 28

The October sun set over Washington last Thursday as 275 D.C.-area college students were loaded onto five massive motor coaches. After taking part in a brief rally led by the League of Conservation Voters, we were all fired up for the supposed 13-hour bus ride from the George Washington University campus to our weekend villas in Orlando. The next two days were promised to be a whirlwind frenzy of canvassing as part of a massive grassroots campaign for Sen. John Kerry.

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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