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...Drama Center was novel down to the details. “The Loeb was one of the first theaters in the country designed to have a black box theater,” said Henning. The lighting board would be computerized—something students had never seen before, said John D. Hancock ’61. “It was a very fine theater for its time,” Kopit said...
...Motion Picture Academy members; a Pixar film has taken the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in four of the past six years. (And in one of the two years it didn't win, it didn't release a film.) Pixar movies are not, however, the mammoth generators of box-office revenue that they used to be. The 2003 Finding Nemo earned $867 million worldwide - still tops for a Pixar feature - on a reported $94 million budget. WALL-E, which cost about twice as much to make, took in about 40% less. In worldwide ticket sales, the 1995 Toy Story...
...What keeps companies investing in animation and makes the genre the most reliable in today's market is the fact that cartoon features tend to do terrific business worldwide. (Action films with little talk also hit it big in foreign climes; language-dependent American comedies usually tank.) Box-office reports focus narrowly on the Sunday numbers in U.S. and Canadian theaters. But euros and rupees and yen are good money too, and sometimes movies that aren't quite blockbusters in North America make the bulk of their gross abroad...
...official weekend estimates, from Box Office Mojo...
...night of Feb. 20 at Lavietes Pavilion. The Harvard women’s basketball team faced Princeton in a must-win game to keep the Crimson in the running for the Ivy League title. While Harvard’s 54-50 win might appear mildly interesting in the box score, attendants of the game know it to be one of the most remarkable comebacks that any Crimson team orchestrated throughout the year.It was around 8:00 pm that the Harvard players began walking sullenly into their locker room after some of their sloppiest play of the season. Princeton...