Volume 88, Issue 20 | March 10, 2010
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Oscars Make History as Bigelow Pioneers
Big Wins for The Hurt Locker, Bigelow, Bullock, Bridges By DAVID GERMAIN ASSOCIATED PRESS
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– LOS ANGELES – Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller The Hurt Locker to the screen. After her film triumphed at
band James Cameron, whose science-fiction epic Avatar also was nominated for the best picture and director that she won. Backstage, Bigelow judiciously handled reporters’ queries about Cameron, who was seated right behind her at the Oscars and joined the standing ovation she received, clapping
and shrugged off the question. “You left me speechless,” Bigelow said. She and Cameron were married from 1989-91, and Cameron won best director and picture for his 1997 blockbuster Titanic. First-time winners took all four acting prizes: Sandra Bullock as best actress for The Blind
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the Academy Awards with six prizes and made her the first woman ever to win the directing Oscar, she graduated to diplomat with her deft handling of some uncomfortable personal questions from reporters after the show. Bigelow’s rivals included a man from her past — ex-hus-
heartily and saying, “Yes, yes” after she won best director. “Jim is very inspiring. I think he inspires filmmakers around the world, and for that, I think I can speak for all of them. We’re quite grateful,” Bigelow said. Asked what she might say to Cameron about winning over him, Bigelow gave a big laugh
The Charger Bulletin Donates Extra Paper to Local Community A CHARGER BULLETIN FEATURE
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A few weeks ago, The Charger Bulletin went green for a week! Instead of the normal, building-to-building delivery service that normally occurs every Wednesday morning, the paper was instead available online to any curious clicker across campus. Of course since then, The Charger Bulletin has gone
back to its normal technologically advanced printing methods: your every day newspaper! For those who don’t know, printing of the weekly edition of The Charger Bulletin is not exactly the most green process on campus. We use a lot of paper for copy editing, energy to create layouts, and we normally order more newspapers than the campus actually needs. In order to reach out to the campus comSee GREEN page 5
Earthquake Flattens Turkish Villages, Kills 51
many people as they slept, crumpling buildings into piles of rub–––––––––––––––––––––––––– ble. Panicked survivors fled into the narrow village streets, some OKCULAR, Turkey – A strong, climbing out of windows, as pre-dawn earthquake with a pre- more than 50 aftershocks mealiminary magnitude of 6 struck suring up to 5.5 and 5.3 magnieastern Turkey on Monday, kill- tude rattled the region. ing 51 people as it knocked down The Kandilli seismology censtone and mud-brick houses and ter said the quake hit at 4:32 a.m. minarets in at least six villages, (0232 GMT, 9 p.m. EST Sunday) the government said. See EARTHQUAKE page 10 The earthquake surprised By KADIR KONUKSEVER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Side; Jeff Bridges as best actor for Crazy Heart; Mo’Nique as supporting actress for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for Inglourious Basterds. Bigelow downplayed descripSee OSCARS page 18
Autistic Musicians Play with Perfect Pitch; Gigs in San Jose, Santa Clara
1988 film Rain Man demonstrated, autistic people can also –––––––––––––––––––––––––– have genius-like qualities. In that Academy-Award winning Lawrence Wang used to hate film, the lead character, played the shrill sounds of the flute. by Dustin Hoffman, was gifted He’d clamp his hands over his ears to drown out his sister’s piano playing. During music lessons, he’d fidget and fight with his teacher. On Saturday, though, he tapped his feet while blowing happily on his saxo- Members of “Magic Makers” perform at a special needs phone, a member of performance of the Jungle Book at the Mexican Heritage plaza in San Jose Saturday, Mar. 6, 2010. (A Patrick an unusual band of Tehan/Mercury News PHOTO) special-needs performers. in memory and math. Those who love Wang and Some of the Magic Makers his peers are thrilled to see how are gifted in music. music calms their autistic nerves Wang’s mother calls him and becomes a unifying force in a “music savant.” He doesn’t a world where they often don’t practice. easily fit. He doesn’t sight-read. And he “Don’t ever give up on your still mostly argues with his muchildren,’’ said Lawrence’s sic teachers during lessons. But mother, Anna Wang of Fremont, pop in a CD, and in an instant who through her son, now 20, “Lawrence hears the music and has become a prominent Silicon almost simultaneously transValley autism activist. “You’ve poses it,’’ his mother said. “It’s got to open them up to possibili- really weird.’’ ties. We so often write them off. It may be a little weird at It doesn’t do our children justice. first, said David Ladd Anderson, God has gifts for everyone.’’ the band’s director, but it’s also Later this month, Wang and wonderful. 21 others have gigs at the East “These guys can sing and Side Union High School District play at a really high level,’’ said and at a Santa Clara restaurant Anderson, who is also a wildly with the predominantly autistic popular music teacher at Buchband, the Magic Makers. ser School in Santa Clara, where Autism is a bioneurological he started a dancing group for disease often marked by im- kids with special needs 10 years paired social behavior, such as ago. “The singers have perfect making scant eye contact and See GIFTED page 7 speaking repetitively. As the By LISA FERNANDEZ
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In the Theatres and Down the Rabbit Hole...
By CAROLE MCFADDAN STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– First thing’s first, “Why is a Raven like a Writing Desk?” Make sure to get out to see Alice in Wonderland to find out the answer to this riddle! Alice’s [Adventures] in Wonderland is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under pseudonym Lewis Carroll in 1865. The popular story is about a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic in ways that has given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. Tim Burton’s 2010 Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy adventure film written by Linda Woolverton. The movie stars an eccentric cast, including Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen, and Stephen Fry. In the film, Alice is now 19 and accidentally returns to Wonderland. She is told that she is the only one that can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon controlled by
the Red Queen. Burton doesn’t around from one character to ansee this as a sequel to previous other without an emotional confilms or as a re-imagining; he be- nection. Burton wanted to make his feel more like a story t h a n a series of events. T h e f i l m uses a technique of combining l i v e action and animation i n t o unusual graphic scenes. Alice in Wonderland w i l l open to more t h a n $100 lieves the original Wonderland was only about a girl wandering See ALICE page 18