Monday, January 31, 2005

Reel Reflections

"Million Dollar Baby," the latest offering from Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood ("Unforgiven") is a masterpiece. This is a movie that will remind audiences why films are made in the first place.

Sex in the Suburbs

Ladies have seen them all. We live with them or sit next to them in class. We either envy them or couldn’t care less. They are the girls who are either lucky enough — or unlucky enough, depending on your view of the situation — to have found a man that has already popped the question. These women have found the few men on campus who are not afraid of commitment.

What began as a harmless fad slowly has begun to engulf our media, suffocating our television programming like weeds in an unattended garden. What is the culprit of this overwhelming domination of our television sets and, ultimately, our minds? The answer: reality television.

The desire to remove body hair has been around since the beginning of mankind. Archaeologists believe cavemen used sharp stones to scrape hair off their faces. Cleopatra shaved her legs with bronze shavers and removed facial hairs with string. Julius Caesar plucked his facial hairs. Even Native Americans tweezed their facial hair between clamshells, according to Hair Removal Forum, Laser Hair Removal Community.

Fashionab-lee

All right boys, this one’s for you. Well, OK, it’s not just for you, but for your girlfriends, sisters, friends and moms, too. You know, the ones who always told you that you’d be so handsome if only you dressed better — now here’s your chance to prove them right.

If the idea of sweating it out at the University Recreation Center to get that Spring Break body doesn’t appeal to you, there are plenty of other ways to get adequate exercise that don’t involve the elliptical machine or the StairMaster.