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...aren’t the first generation to grow up with movies and television. This effect existed before, but it is a matter of degree; our simulation differs by being more realistic, more complete.In the aforementioned Postal Service song, “Clark Gable,” the actor simulates an imitation kiss in the context of a movie, with ersatz rain as a backdrop—“the script it called for rain / but it was clear that day / so we faked it.” It’s an apt reflection of existence; like LeRoy...
...Setting the Record Straight • Playing Dead Our May 29 Milestone on the death of Japanese actor Takahiro Tamura misidentified his father as Tamasaburo Bando. The correct name should be Tsumasaburo Bando, who was a screen legend in the 1920s and '30s. Tamasaburo Bando is a current Kabuki actor...
...names of all the rowers off the photographs,” Cuse said. “And then I went to Widener and looked them up in the directory.”By the time Cuse had finished the project, he had secured a major financial backer, convinced actor and writer George H. Plimpton ’48 to narrate it, and had sold it to the network TBS, which soon aired it.“That was my calling card,” he says. “I came out to LA and got hired as the assistant...
...they were something of a “silent minority,” Richard L.A Weiner ’81 says. “I think there was a lot of shock through the student body when Reagan was elected president,” Weiner says. Reagan, a former actor, was “seemingly nothing more than a guy who could read the teleprompter.”“It was a particularly Harvard way of looking at Reagan,” Boorstin says. “He was a dummy.”For some at Harvard...
DIED. Robert Sterling, 88, hunky actor in low-profile 1940s MGM movies who shot to national fame as a ghost, below, with co-stars Anne Jeffreys, his off- and onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...