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R.I.P. Karl Malden

July 1st, 2009 by Will O'Hargan

Veteran actor and American Express pitchman Karl Malden died at age 97 today, continuing a bizarre string of celebrity deaths. Malden was an Academy Award winning actor, for his work on A Streetcar Named Desire and appeared in several other films including On the Waterfront and Patton. While he is best known to younger audiences [...]

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#100

April 30th, 2009 by Dave Studinski

This is it. Column 100, and my last as a Ball State University student. That’s as freaky to me as it likely is to you. I’m finally graduating … again.
To every bar hopper, friend, random student and instructor who took the time to e-mail, text, tweet or verbally acknowledge the column, I give you my [...]

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R.I.P. Ron Silver

March 16th, 2009 by Will O'Hargan

Ron Silver died of cancer yesterday. A veteran stage actor, he will be remembered as ‘Bruno’ from The West Wing to most of the BS.com staff. In his memory I present his best West Wing moment, that landed just outside of the Top Ten Aaron Sorkin Speeches list.

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Get ready to be inspired

December 11th, 2008 by Will O'Hargan

Every year at the Oscars there are short video tributes to various scenes in movies. Of course, in the internet age anyone can make and post these videos. Here is one of the best I’ve ever seen, which is pitch perfect from the start, to the editing, to the finish.

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When shooting Field of Dreams James Earl Jones came up to the director with the script in hand. They were about to shoot the most famous scene in the movie, his characters speech about baseball being more than a game, being part of history, a marker of the times. Jones had been hired to do [...]

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