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("Drumline" co-scripter Tina Gordon Chism wrote the screenplay.) First-time director Chris Robinson, a music-video helmer who has directed clips for both T.I.

and Big Boi, certainly shows a nuanced flair for detail and creates an honest, relatable world on film that makes this enjoyable just for the visual vividness of it.

But alas, "ATL" turns out to be just another earnest 'hood movie.Man, where's the fun in that?

Staff writer Craig D.

Lindsey can be reached at 829-4760, clindsey@newsobserver.com or blogs.newsobserver.com/unclecrizzle.

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" And pennylane01, on her blog, wrote: "Thank you O powerful (and treacherous) college gods for nothing but my current state of depression and anxiousness.

I can't thank you enough." College and graduate school applicants awaiting the good, or bad, news from admissions offices - some already in hand, some coming any day now - have discovered the addictive joys of chronicling their experiences in excruciating and often embarrassing detail online in blogs and on forums.

On Web sites like lunch-money.com, gradschoolforum.com and studentdoctor.net, among many others, participants are Web-casting love songs to admissions committees, describing lucky meals to eat before the mail arrives, comparing SAT scores, typing through tears of rejection, and rating the best and worst notification letters.

Stanford was nominated for cruelest rejection.

"Anyone hear from Johns Hopkins yet?

" is a typical initial posting on many forums, beginning a so-called thread of dozens, maybe hundreds, of responses to the poster that alternately empathize, ridicule, console and misinform his or her chances of actually hearing from Johns Hopkins.

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