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Young stars heat up 'Boiler Room,' a cautionary tale for college students

Young stars heat up 'Boiler Room,' a cautionary tale for college students

An inside look at the high-stakes world of day-trading, Ben Younger's directorial debut "Boiler Room" depicts a mentality that will seem familiar to Princeton students: the monomaniacal desire to make a million dollars."Boiler Room" is at its best introducing protagonist Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) ? a college dropout running a profitable backdoor casino ? to the cutthroat, amoral life of the trading floor.

NEWS | 03/08/2000

Campus arts groups collaborate on Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream'

It is rare in Princeton's shockingly compartmentalized arts community to find the major performing groups on campus working together.

NEWS | 03/01/2000

Rosen traces era's hysteria

In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, there are no witches, no flying broomsticks or bubbling cauldrons, none of the markings of black magic that we have come to expect from the centuries of lore that support the existence of witchcraft.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

'Dawson's Creek' sparks huge Princeton following

The title of the Dubba-Dubba WB's newest primetime hit program, Dawson's Creek, lends itself nicely to cute, clever little headlines.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

Peep worshipping cult develops on internet

A new form of cult is emerging on the American landscape ? one far more disturbing than any belligerent militia holed-up in the mountains of Montana or a compound of New Age religious zealots.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

Double Take

Ah, the power of the pass. Before entering the world of black pants, beer and random hookups, who would have thought that a small, credit-card sized scrap of colored paper could make or break one's social life at Princeton?Freshman year, I remember visiting a senior T.I.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

Film series goes underground

During Spring Break this year, I thought that life certainly could not get any duller. But a call from my cousin saved me from me from almost utter despair.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

NYC production reinterprets Shakespeare

A darkened theater. The sound of stomping and rhythmic breathing. Four identically clad prep school boys.

NEWS | 04/08/1998

Mags seduce modern male

Until now, there has been good reason that women's magazines outnumber men's magazines. With the advent of Maxim: for Men, the self-proclaimed "best thing to happen to men since women," this may change.Regardless of our intellectual prowess, we don't look to gender-specific magazines for articles on international affairs or interminable book reviews.

NEWS | 04/01/1998

Clapton's return with 'Pilgrim' merits thanks

I put on Eric Clapton's new album, Pilgrim, while I was cleaning my room. With the first mellow strains of the album I discovered that continuing to clean my room was no longer an option.

NEWS | 04/01/1998

Hunter's 'Fever' heats up Intime

While most people associate hay fever with uncontrollable sneezing attacks, itchy throats, runny eyes and expensive antihistamines that never work, don't be turned off by the title of Noel Coward's Hay Fever directed by Marlo Hunter '99.

NEWS | 04/01/1998

BYTE ME

Since we've been roasting in un-airconditioned dorm rooms and classes, our daydreaming has turned toward all things icy cold as we fiddle with our Vornado fans.

NEWS | 04/01/1998

A week in Ecuador with SVC broadens perspective

It was 5:15 on Friday morning and I was frantically stuffing my dirty clothing into a washing machine.

NEWS | 04/01/1998

Double Take

"To Review, Press 1; To Send, Press 2; To Stalk, Press 3"Ahhh . . . the broken dial tone.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

All we really need to know we learned at the Academy Awards

AA year ago this week, the Nassau Weekly printed a 12-step program on how to win an Oscar. Now that we've gone through rehabilitation, being conscientious Princeton students we seem to find a lesson in everything.1.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

BYTE ME

In the spirt of Katie's deconstruction of the new cK campaign, the fashion event of the year (the Academy Awards) and the hopes for warm weather soon (Damn you, El Ni?o), here are some great fashion sites to get your spring wardrobe in order. If you're always looking for a deal ? and we sure are ? go to: http://www.samplesale.comThey provide listings and locations for lots of different sales across America, whether Saks is just clearing its house or DKNY is putting their samples on the racks at cheap, wholesale prices.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

Calvin Klein's spring line brings fashion industry towards post-heroin chic

Anyone flipping through the latest issue of Vogue or Elle is bound to notice the copious number of glossy pages devoted to the lavish ad campaigns of fashion's leading designers.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

'Houses': A mix of obscurity and illumination

Much can be said about Richard Greenberg's play Safe as Houses, currently at McCarter, in terms of the visual picture of the first scene.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

Banks' newest novel triumphs

The moon had set, and the last stars, like silver nails, had pinned the canopy overhead." The sky is always on the verge of falling in Russell Banks' new novel, aptly titled Cloudsplitter (Harper Collins, $27.50). The title refers to Tahawus, a mountain, that towers over the home of the equally imposing hero of these pages, Captain John Brown, the messianic abolitionist whose death at Harpers Ferry sparked this nation's Civil War.Although Banks' "work of the imagination" does nothing to diminish the aura that surrounds this historical figure, he does go to considerable lengths with his fictional John Brown to show the debilitating personal consequences of greatness.

NEWS | 03/25/1998

'Hush' audiences can't keep their mouths shut

"Hush little baby, don't say a word . . ."This quiet little lullaby describes a mother's undying devotion to her child and the extremes she is willing to go in order to satisfy his every delight.

NEWS | 03/11/1998

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