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THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger...
...fielder’s choice with runners at first and third in the bottom of the first inning, but Harvard promptly responded in the top of the second. After Mackey singled and Hordon launched a two-out ground rule double into right field, a wild pitch from Bulldog starter Alec Smith sent Mackey home and tied up the game...
Joining Mongiardini on the mound against the Crimson this weekend will be starters Alec Smith, John Hollis and perhaps the most dominant hurler of the group, Josh Sowers, who is creating a bit of buzz amongst professional scouts himself...
...Alec Soth sees it, the Mississippi River is a body of water bordered by dream states. Five years ago, he set out on the first of a series of trips that evolved into a project he calls "Sleeping by the Mississippi." Traveling mostly by car, he took photographs along the entire length of the river, from the upper reaches near his home in Minneapolis, Minn., to the delta country in Louisiana. He set out, he says, with no agenda other than "to photograph, and to figure it out as I went along...
...film is a very loose, very Americanized remake of the Alec Guinness comedy of 1955, with which it shares a title, a basic situation and not much else. Tom Hanks--sporting a goatee, a white suit and a mellifluous Southern accent--expertly essays the Guinness part as a criminal mastermind bent on separating a casino from its take. To this end, Hanks' character, Professor G.H. Dorr, rents a room in a house owned by Marva Munson (the splendid Irma P. Hall). He thereby obtains access to the basement; ostensibly it's a rehearsal space for his period-instrument group...