Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Readers questioned The Crimson's credibility, since many of those young on staff editorials had connections to the Undergraduate Council and several of the candidates were Crimson editors. Candidates angry about receiving down arrows and being called WASPs, ugly or spoiled objected to "Crimson Wisdom" by Daniel C. Allen '97 and Andrew A. Green '98, a take-off of Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom." But this year, as we experience a popular election for the second time, "Crimson Wisdom" came and went without reader comment, and only one candidate, Justin E. Porter '99, stopped me to say he felt shafted...
Even "Crimson Wisdom," the spoof that I took issue with last year for its placement in the staff editorial column and for its sometimes malicious personal attacks on various candidates, was better placed this year and stuck to the issues. Thankfully, the writers this year--Allen, Green and Amy M. Rabinowitz '98--stayed away from people's personal appearances and ethnic heritages. As a result, "Crimson Wisdom" was actually pretty funny. Still, next time the editorial page editor should double-check those arrows to make sure a correction box isn't needed the next day. An apology should have gone...
...film is the logical culmination of one of Allen's obsessions: the classic American popular song. After commissioning music for his first three movies, he decided that creating original scores was "such an ordeal" that it was easier to pop in recordings of Gershwin and Porter standards--the music he grew up with and, he admits, never grew out of: "My interest in music ended with the music...
...film is also the fullest expression of Allen's love affair with New York City. "I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan," he says, "and I wanted to make a movie to share with other people the very warm and positive feelings I have for my neighborhood. I look around and I see rich kids going to these private schools and their chauffeurs take them, and I see husbands and wives come down at night, and he's got a tux on and she's got a gown, and they go out--it's a wonderful, romantic neighborhood...
...retro, romantic musical about the rich and pampered? Sounds like something most American moviegoers would scorn as passe. But Allen is still a believer in the traditional musical, however out of vogue. "It always depends on the quality of the work. If My Fair Lady came out tomorrow, people would love it." He'd eventually like to do a traditional musical with original songs, he says. But that, of course, means finding songs. Says Allen, sighing: "If only Lerner and Loewe were alive...