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...final score, as reported by those who didn’t fall asleep or leave, was 9-6 in favor of the Lions. Rudd managed to make three of his five field-goal attempts on the afternoon, including one from 39 yards. For this effort, he was awarded Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week. That’s right, he wasn’t benched: he was given an award. I’d feel a lot better about this distinction if they changed the title to “Least Terrible Ivy League Special Teams Player...
Staunton received the award for best actress at the Venice International Film Festival this year, a fitting prize for her exemplary work, but she is not alone in this accomplished ensemble. The acting throughout is of extraordinary quality: a film that could have been all about a message becomes instead a portrait of a time, a place and a family. That in itself is a triumph, and something that makes Vera Drake stand out from the crowd...
...intensely powerful story of the last months of the life an African-American bisexual jazz musician and the dangerous double life he leads. The play’s broad range of sexual, cultural and medical themes will be sure to move anyone. The winner of the Helen Hayes Award for best new play is be presented by BlackCAST and will run for only one weekend. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. $6; $8 at the door. 8 p.m. Shows also Friday, Nov. 5 and Saturday, Nov. 6. Adams House Pool Theatre...
...outsider of New Zealand literature, starting with John Mulgan's 1939 novel Man Alone. When Gee began writing the book in the late '60s, "we were able to shake off that oppressive Puritanism," the author, 73, recalls, "which wasn't only religious, it was secular." Novels like Gee's award-winning Plumb (1978), based on the life of his Presbyterian minister turned Communist grandfather James Chapple, continued that shaking-off. By the time writer-director Brad McGann got around to adapting Den three decades later, New Zealand had changed...
...found in McGann a perfect celluloid soul mate to explore these shadowlands. With Possum, his award-winning 1996 short, the filmmaker, trained at Melbourne's Swinburne school, found improbable lightness in the dark fable of a boy and his autistic sister at the turn of last century. With Father's Den, he sets a match to New Zealand's "cinema of unease," the phrase coined by Sam Neill to describe the country's love affair with darkness. "I need a cigarette to cope with this kind of scenery," says Paul at one point. So, too, might audience-goers, so slowly...