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...World War II movie, Miracle at St. Anna, and this time he is up against real-life fighters who may be even tougher than Dirty Harry. Surviving members of Italy's underground anti-Nazi resistance movement are angry over the film, a fictionalized account of the travails of the 92nd Infantry Division - the black GIs known as Buffalo Soldiers - as they helped liberate Italy. The film includes a portrayal of the Nazis' infamous 1944 slaughter of some 560 Italian civilians in the Tuscan town of Sant'Anna di Stazzema...
Negron was a member of the 92nd Infantry Division, the black GIs known as Buffalo Soldiers. Their white captain sends them on a suicide mission against the Nazis, but four of them - Corporal Negron, Staff Sergeant Aubrey Stamps (Derek Luke), Sergeant Bishop Cummings (Michael Ealy) and Private Sam Train (Omar Benson Miller) - make it across a river and into a remote village. There they fend off the Germans and mix with the locals, especially the fierce Renata (Valentina Cervi), the crafty Partisan Rodolfo (Sergio Albelli) and 8-year-old Angelo (Matteo Sciabordi), whose life Train saves...
...studio (the major, MGM) and form the bedrock of his current furtive eminence. Higgins had written several Crime Does Not Pay docudrama shorts for MGM in the '30s. And when the police-procedural docudrama became a popular feature-length genre in 1945 with the success of The House on 92nd Street (produced by Louis de Rochemont, who had fashioned miniature versions of the genre for the dramatized newsreel series The March of Time), Higgins jumped in, and Mann was there with...
...must stray off Broadway. Walk a half block down 55th Street to the invaluable City Centers Encores! series, which last night premiered its concert version of the Gershwins' 1931 hit Of Thee I Sing. Or go further northeast to one of the city's magnificent cultural resources, the 92nd Street Y, which last weekend presented "Hooray for Hollywood: Johnny Mercer at the Movies." Those are the places I was this week, in heaven. Read on, and sing along...
...31st, and 37th places, respectively.Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam, and Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Elaine Scarry placed 57th, 77th, and 92nd, respectively.Most professors seemed unfazed by the outcome, unsure of the significance and import of the list.When asked about his reaction to his new title as the world’s top public intellectual, Chomsky replied in an e-mail that he was “underwhelmed...