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...Luchini's love affair with literature was a late-blooming thing. The son of an immigrant Italian greengrocer and a French mother, he dropped out of school at age 14 to become an apprentice hairdresser. Four years later, filmmaker Philippe Labro discovered the young man in a Paris nightclub teaching people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel...
...article “Acceptance Rates For Class of 2005 Hits All-Time Low” (News, April 4), I was amused to notice that The Crimson has continued its long-standing love affair with Harvard’s selective admissions record. I’ve read countless Crimson articles during my three years here smugly alluding Harvard’s “elite” status and its place as the “top university” in the nation, whatever that means. And now an article about admissions, focusing on rejection letters and containing the internal...
...fight. This time the resistance resembled a gangster shoot-out, not a military standoff. An estimated 20 supporters, and a well-armed and reportedly well-lubricated bodyguard fired back at police, injuring two officers and forcing the raid back. Milosevic tried to put a smooth face on the affair by telling a local TV station he was relaxing with "comrades" and sipping coffee. Nothing, it seemed, could shake his expert skills as a liar. Later, seeming more desperate, he vowed to a police commander that he would not be taken alive. Another...
...since Erdrich's husband and sometime collaborator, the author Michael Dorris, committed suicide. They were separated at the time, and he was despondent at being investigated for possible sexual abuse of one of their three daughters, who are now 12 to 17. Erdrich describes the press attention surrounding this affair as "extremely painful" and politely but firmly refuses to discuss Dorris or his death in any detail. "It's very hard for me to address, because the smallest thing I say raises such a range of complex issues with his children, his friends, his remaining family. Even if I felt...
...California sound and writer of such intricate vocal harmonies as the 1966 chart topper California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Following a brief reign atop the charts, the group split up in 1968 after Phillips' then wife and bandmate Michelle had an affair with fellow band member Denny Doherty. Phillips, a recovered drug and alcohol user, received a liver transplant...