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'Sexy Beast' Proves Name From First Bite

By Allyson Shaffer | July 19

Four of Five Stars ?Sexy Beast? is a sexy beast. At first glance, it appears alluring and expensive, but it?s actually quite fierce and a bit gruesome. But not because the previews look good and the content is bad. Rather, it?s because the film attracts your attention. Once its jaws are clamped firmly down, it refuses to let go, barreling to the end full-pace, slobbering all the way. And the film is full of other sexy beasts, from characters to subject matter to camera work.

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Film Chronicles Dot-Com Woes

By Allyson Shaffer | July 5

'Startup.com' may be a documentary, but not in the National Geographic 'this is how tiger's mate' style of film. Instead, it has a strong story-like, voyeuristic feel. More than just the life of an Internet business, the film focuses on the co-founders? personal lives and the lifestyle the e-commerce imposes on them. It takes the how-to of creating and maintaining an Internet business and adds two actual people's stories, making the documentary more engaging.

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Exhibit Honors UNC Alumnus

By Allyson Shaffer | June 20

Before frequenting the courtroom in "Matlock," he kept order in Mayberry on "The Andy Griffith Show." Before that Andy Griffith, the famous comedian, actor and musician, was a student here at the University. Now all these different phases from his life have returned in an exhibit at Wilson Library. The "Andy Griffith: Chapel Hill, Mayberry and Beyond" exhibit includes playbills, posters, recordings and photographs and will run through Aug.

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Rock Exhibit Crowds Ackland

By Allyson Shaffer | June 13

The music of the `60s received an artistic treatment Sunday at a record breaking exhibit opening at the Ackland Art Museum. Nearly 2,000 poeple spilled off the Ackland Art Museum's front steps to view the 50 photographs of the "Linda McCartney: Portrait of the Sixties" exhibit. The Ackland's currator of exhibitions, Barbara Matilsky said the crowd was the biggest showing at an exhibit opening the Ackland has experienced. Linda McCartney was an accomplished photographer and wife to Paul McCartney of the Beatles who died of cancer in 1998.

Allyson Shaffer

'Sexy Beast' Proves Name From First Bite

Film Chronicles Dot-Com Woes

Exhibit Honors UNC Alumnus

Rock Exhibit Crowds Ackland

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