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...that I write myself that's about something really ambitious, that contributes new ideas to the language of cinema." While the Godfather movies are fan favorites, he prefers the films it took critics longer to embrace, like Apocalypse Now, or audiences to discover, like The Rain People (see box). "The easiest way to make sure a movie is successful is to make a traditional movie very well," he says. "If you make a slightly unusual movie or [don't] exactly follow the rules as everyone sees them, then you get in trouble or, like with Apocalypse, wait 20 years...
Thomas Middleton was the rebel of English Renaissance drama. Audiences adored how his plays went right to the limits - his sex was dirty, his violence grisly, his politics risky. His work was so popular in his time that it broke box-office records at London's Globe theater. But over the centuries, thanks to censorship and Victorian prudery, he fell out of fashion. By the time the world was ready again for Middleton's R-rated brand of theater, Shakespeare reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion of English literature, knocking everyone else to the margins of the curriculum and away...
...frequent press-box debate among the football writers is which Ivy coaches would succeed on the field on Saturdays if they were allowed to play. At well over six feet tall and still pushing 300 pounds, Wilson looks like he could start on any offensive line in the Ivy League, and probably would. He is rarely difficult to find on the sideline, as he towers over most of his own players...
...Canadian youth hockey teams ran up the score against us in one too many tournaments, writing sports now starts a new connection to the team.Even though I’m now going to games for a different reason and lose the chance to cheer when I enter the press box, I still enjoy watching a Harvard sports team extending its influence into the community. As the price of professional sports tickets makes a family night out to cheer on the home team prohibitively expensive, I’m glad that college sports is there as alternative way to see sports...
...fourth quarter: Steve Williams is slow to get up after a 38-yard pass from Columbia. The next play sees Peter Ajayi sack Hormann and push things back, angering the Columbia coaches in the nearby press box...