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SOME YEARS BACK, STUDENTS demanded improvements to the poorly planned Katherine Bogdanovich Loker Commons. The administration's knee-jerk hiring of a consultant produced radical reform, including the installation of a TV room. Yet Loker's rep has not considerably improved; many still clamor for a student center. The TV room reveals one major hurdle to any proposed student center: Harvard social ineptitude...
Tragically, the awkwardness will only continue with Jerry Springer as Harvard's leisure-time mentor. To those who brave Bogdanovich's TV room: tune in to "One Life to Live" and talk amongst yourselves...
...SAINTLY SWITCH: Celebrated '70s director, film critic and biographer Peter Bogdanovich thinks out of the box--these days, way out of the box. His latest effort: directing a Wonderful World of Disney TV movie about parental role reversal. (It airs Jan. 24, and it's fun!) But don't look for a review in Film Comment...
...Last Picture Show (1971). Peter Bogdanovich's black-and-white neo-classic about the death of a North Texas town has plenty of similarities to this scandal, whose own denouement is tiptoeing into view. Sex, sex, sex, for one thing, including plenty of discussion about how far is too far to go on a sultry Panhandle night. The coquette/tramp, played with appropriate feminine deviltry by Cybill Shepherd (who never looked so good -- just ask Bogdanovich, who did a May-December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early...
...Twenty years after the moviehouse closed, Bogdanovich gave his landmark film the Evening Star treatment with the wan Texasville (1991). Pass on it. But if it's true the President is considering a sequel of his own on Monday night -- a televised primetime address to the nation -- you'll want to tune in at 9. If he's a no-show, there's always Miss Teen...