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...work in production development––reading scripts, deciding what to make and not to make, having ambitious artists under his authority––and hopefully end up as the head of a production division within a film company. And his background makes him a good candidate. According to Polonsky, many of the important people in production have intellectual backgrounds: making movies isn’t about dropping out and heading to Hollywood anymore. One doesn’t have to choose between making movies and learning about them. Connor says this attitude...
...past concerts as the cooperation of great weather and better music started to ease the pain of Snoop and Wyclef’s no-shows. Even the underwhelming culinary options had a certain charm on this Sunday eve. Folds’ songs proved to be great background for some hours of timely relaxation and unwinding just before the beginning of reading period. We hope the new College Events Board keeps Yardfest and the fall’s Harvard State Fair in mind as they begin to set an agenda for next year. In particular, the Yard has proven a great...
...yesterday is more than four feet tall and depicts a vibrant-looking Rudenstine wearing a bright red robe—in contrast with the mostly subdued colors of the paintings that line the walls of the Faculty Room.“He did exactly what I hoped: no black background, no black robe,” Rudenstine said after his speech.LOOMING DECISIONSRudenstine said in a brief interview that he would not advise the presidential search committee, even informally, as it vets candidates over the coming months.“It’s not appropriate,” he said.The...
...you’re really going to have a little something for everyone. Undergrads could come and go as they pleased with no financial consequences, which meant that avid Ben Folds fans could close in on the stage and relatively disinterested students could still attend, enjoying the concert as background music while they caught up with friends over dinner...
...immigration-hostile, anti-European platform has traditionally attracted the more affluent, genteel brand of reactionary - matching de Villiers' own snobbish aristocratic background. The scion of a posh family whose blueblood ancestors once lorded over parts of his native Vend?e region in western France, the chateau-owning de Villiers initially attracted more pragmatic royalists and upper-class rightists than he did hardened reactionies. Long unwilling to taint himself with the snarling language and mean-spirited policies favored by the National Front, de Villiers has often been belittled as "Le Pen Lite." He's clearly looking to change that - and not just...