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Nancy Rawles, who won an American Book Award for her 1998 novel, Love Like Gumbo, has built her latest book, My Jim, upon this controversial character. “Upon,” and not “about,” is the right word: Rawles takes Jim less as the subject than as the starting point of a narrative dominated by the strong-willed women who tell it. In fact, although the book jacket proclaims My Jim a “nuanced critique of the great American novel,” it makes little direct contact with Twain?...
...lower common room of Adams House on Thursday night, a quiet, thoughtful group of students and other members of the Cambridge community gathered to hear award-winning poet Maurice Manning read from his latest work, A Compilation for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D.Boone, Long Hunter, Black Woodsman & Co. The Yale Younger Poet (2002) and professor of English at Indiana University seemed awestruck that such a large crowd had gathered on his behalf...
Another tradition involved in Cultural Rhythms is the unveiling of the Foundation’s choice for Artist of the Year, a prominent performing artist who has displayed noteworthy charitable concern as well as efforts to encourage multiculturalism. In the past, Cultural Rhythms has been hosted by the award recipients and such A-list entertainers as Queen Latifah, Matt Damon, and Will Smith. The artist is hand-selected by Dr. S. Allen Counter, the Director of the Harvard Foundation, from a ranked list of celebrities voted on by student interns. Though the show’s organizers are hesitant...
...stage, film and TV; in Malibu, Calif. His British theater credits led to many U.S. film roles, including his first, Macduff in Orson Welles' Macbeth; F.D.R. in 1977's MacArthur; and dozens of other characters in movies ranging from Fail-Safe to RoboCop. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1954 for the title role in Luis Buuel's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe but lost to Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront...
...SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF HIS CONSTITUENCY WITH THIS MOVIE. Well, I got a big laugh out of that. These people are always bitching about "Hollyweird," and then they start bitching about this film. Are they all so mad because The Passion of the Christ is only up for the makeup award and a couple of other minor things? Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left...