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...years divisible by five - and, since Sunday?s award ceremony honors the films of 2005, this is one of them - a first or second film directed by a famous actor wins (three of the last five times, when Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson walked home happy). By that logic, the front-runner is George Clooney?s Good Night, and Good Luck...
...There are three other theories, unique to this year, and all favor Crash. One is that Brokeback, the front-runner after its critics? nods in December and its Golden Globe award in January, made the fatal faux pas of peaked too soon. Whereas Crash, which has lately been getting the majority of Hollywood?s favorite four-letter word, buzz, peaked at just the right time...
...thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World War I, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a German film about the World War II activist tried and killed for protesting against Hitler. But the award often goes to the least-known film. That would be Don?t Tell, an Italian drama about a woman?s memory of child abuse...
...Sachs. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore, Zoellick received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979 and a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School two years later. Zoellick, who received the Kennedy School’s Alumni Achievement Award from the school’s dean, David T. Ellwood ’75, fielded a wide range of questions from the audience and from Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison. In his early remarks, Zoellick offered career advice, saying that “public service is the highest...
Playwright Christopher Durang ’71, a onetime Dunster House resident, will return to his alma mater to receive the Harvard Arts Medal, an annual honor awarded to alumni that have demonstrated artistic excellence and contributed to raising student interest in the arts, the Office for the Arts announced Wednesday. Durang will be the 12th to add his name to the list of notable alumni artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, director Peter Sellers ’80 and author John Updike ’54, who have earned the medal. In May, University President...