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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: American Girl's new boy doll won’t revolutionize company

EDITORIAL: American Girl’s new boy doll won’t revolutionize company

Editors February 17, 2017

The American Girl has always sat at the absolute top of the doll food chain, coveted above Barbie, Bratz dolls or Polly Pockets. Though astronomically priced and requiring way too many accessories, American...

BURSTEIN: On-screen female friendships parallel my own

BURSTEIN: On-screen female friendships parallel my own

Sarah Burstein October 7, 2015

It all started with “Sex and the City,” as we watched Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha navigate their way through their 30s (and consequent midlife crises), contemplating love and careers. We...

Despite having different experiences than his onscreen character, “Boyhood” star Ellar Coltrane connected to the universal ideas of growing up. PHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMS

INTERVIEW: Ellar Coltrane finds some of himself in his ‘Boyhood’ character

Cat McCarrey September 19, 2014

Ellar Coltrane uses a flip phone. The star of “Boyhood,” whose entire maturation process is seen on screen by each person who contributed to its $21,808,498-and-counting box office take, had to search...

PHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMS

REVIEW: Things change, things stay the same in thoughtful ‘Boyhood’

Cat McCarrey September 19, 2014

Legend has it that Richard Linklater was once challenged to make a film around a conversation. The film was “Before Sunrise,” whose restricted single-night setting and honest intensity vaulted Linklater...

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