Word: allison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Previous deans of the Kennedy School Graham Allison and Robert Putnam had made attempts to entice Professor Wilson to come to Harvard," Carnesale says. "When I became dean, I simply followed in their footsteps...
...plan. On one level this turns out to be a bad deal. For the pressures of the big night bring out the worst in a lot of its key participants. But it does messily resolve a lot of romantic muddles involving three terrific actresses (Isabella Rossellini, Minnie Driver and Allison Janney), and it brings out the genius in Primo. The meal he serves offers everyone the consolations of--no other word...
...Allison Anders' Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Illeana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based on the early career of Carole King, who with her husband Gerry Goffin composed some of the best hits--Will You Love Me Tomorrow?, One Fine Day, The Loco-Motion, A Natural Woman--ever to emerge from the Brill Building. Then Anders adds a fantasy Newlywed Game: What if King had married Brian Wilson (Matt Dillon) at his loopiest...
...check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary. In Allison Anders" Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Ileana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based on the early career of Carole King, who with...
Other Key Players: Allison Feaster '98, Jessica Gelman '97, Amy Reinhard '96, Katy Davis...