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...complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open to his closest confidantes about his sexual proclivities, he is a gleeful gossip. He delights in mentioning that his great rival Laurence Olivier, for instance, had extramarital affairs with actresses Peggy Ashcroft and Dorothy Tutin, and relates a tale about Alec Guinness on a rack in a dominatrix's dungeon. But there is far more to the book, and to Gielgud, than dish. The scope of his life was epic; he lived from 1904 until 2000, working almost to the end - his last major film...
...Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...
...social conscience and its pitch-perfect cinematography, but, unlike Lawrence, it also possesses the compelling characters and tense, terse plotting that so distinguished Lean’s masterpieces Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter. Stars Omar Sharif and Julie Christie could not be lovelier, but supporting players Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger and especially Tom Courtenay also have ample space to prove why they are titans of their craft. Among other things, this is a movie to drink in—it’s one of the saddest, prettiest travelogues you’ll ever see, with Maurice...
...thrilled by it, but I think Harvard is probably not thrilled by it either,” said Alec Wysoker ’84. “It brings a lot of benefit to the city and the neighborhood...
...Resident Alec Wysoker ’84 indicated that the two sides had reached a compromise on one of the most contentious Harvard-owned sites, the plot on Memorial Drive currently occupied by Mahoney’s Garden Center. The University has said it wants to construct graduate student housing on the site...