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...well worth a stop for anyone with an interest in changing trends in the art world.As if to symbolize Boston’s split artistic personality, Gallery NAGA (67 Newbury St) is located in the same building as a granite Victorian-era church. The work of Boston native Gerry Bergstein, who has exhibited here for the past 30 years, is currently on display. His paintings are intricate and dreamlike, capturing imaginary worlds simultaneously being constructed and destroyed. Often, there stands a small, balding man painted in a corner, a self-referential portrait of the artist trying to figure out what...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Galleries Exhibit New Art in Beantown’s Old Heart | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...when It’s My Turn was written and filmed, Gross was just a year out of his doctoral program, working as an instructor in the math department of Princeton University. He says he laughed it off when Eleanor Bergstein, a local first-time screenwriter—still seven years away from writing Dirty Dancing, her only success—said she had a script she wanted him to look over. After all, he says, who doesn’t have a screenplay in her bottom drawer that she hawks to junior math faculty from time to time...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera and Algebraic Topology! | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

Once he was convinced that Bergstein was on the level—she told him production was starting in less than a month—Gross says he remained far from impressed with the draft she showed him over lunch...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera and Algebraic Topology! | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

...says he spent weeks helping Bergstein rewrite her script, penning the choice words that open the film. He also helped craft the role of a third love interest for Clayburgh’s character—a young male mathematician who he says was studiously modeled after his own mannerisms and attitudes. Sadly, Gross says his screen-doppelganger ended up on the cutting-room floor after filming...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera and Algebraic Topology! | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

...could get an idea of what it was like for a woman in academia. When she visited them, Gross says, the movie star was crestfallen to learn that female professors in the male-dominated field of math weren’t as confident and commanding as the role Bergstein had written...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera and Algebraic Topology! | 10/23/2003 | See Source »

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