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...Lucas is obliging. It has been 20 years since CHEWBACCA appeared in a new Star Wars movie, but Han Solo's faithful, fur-covered sidekick will return for a small part in Episode III, which starts production this summer in Australia. Peter Mayhew, the 7-ft. 3-in. English actor who donned the Wookiee suit for the first three Star Wars films--and has been signing autographs at conventions ever since--will again play the brawny warrior from the planet Kashyyyk. Lucas has said that Episode III, due for release in 2005, will be the last Star Wars movie...
...head off any technological transfer from the government to radical Islamic groups. Back from his inquiries with a book on the stands, Lévy is once again ensconced in unabashed glamour on the Left Bank. He and Dombasle also own a palace in Marrakech, purchased from the actor Alain Delon. Universally known in France as BHL, he is not shy about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed...
Emmy Award-winning actor John Lithgow ’67, a former University Overseer who was one of the creators of the Arts First program, will serve as the grand marshal for the Arts First parade tomorrow. The procession will begin at 11 a.m. in front of Lamont Library and will wind its way through Harvard Square...
...strolling up and down the new releases aisle a few days go and quickly came across The Pianist—one of this year’s surprising Oscar favorites. I read across the tape’s glossy cover: “Best Actor,” “Best Screenplay.” But then I stopped at “Best Director.” You see, I don’t consider the film’s Oscar triumphs unexpected because The Pianist was a bad movie—it wasn’t. Rather...
...forerunner of the mini-genre of “insider chic,” Kiss Me, Kate depicts a warring couple, actor-director Fred Graham (Joseph H. Weintraub ’05) and starlet Lilli Vanessi (Jean M. Flannery ’04), whose offstage feud affects the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in which the two co-star. Its top-drawer Porter score, filled with tricky diction and prankster flourishes, encourages performances that are expansive, even shamelessly theatrical...