Word: backgrounders
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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...
...theater. Birnbaum, Burkle, and the author of the adaptation, Adam V. Kline ’02, were perfectly aware of this problem and were up for the challenge. Their adaptation features a long-locked and earnest Charles Darnay (Liam R. Martin ’06) whose aristocratic background is brought under the scrutiny of the revolutionary Mr. and Mrs. Defarge (Joshua C. Phillips ’07 and Alison H. Rich ’09). As punishment, his tresses are condemned to meet with the “National Razor” of a vicious and snipper-happy barber...
...He’s a constant reminder of what you can accomplish,” Hurd says of Kacyvenski, “no matter what your background, no matter what your upbringing, no matter what type of adversity you had to deal with in your life, it’s not going to be compared to what this kid went through...
Murphy says he had little doubt that Kacyvenski pointed out Tunovic’s background to encourage the coach to follow up on the young...