Word: brent
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...times, 1776 forgets it's a musical and devotes an unsung half-hour to the great questions of the day: How can we get idealistic, insufferable John Adams (Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) to shut up? Will Thomas Jefferson (Paul Michael Valley) have sex in time to write his masterpiece? And would Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding...
...Brent L. Auerbach '97 wrote a 25-minute neo-romantic musical composition titled "Summer's End for Woodwind Nonet" for his music department thesis...
...DIED. L. BRENT BOZELL, 71, a fixture of conservative thought and activism; of pneumonia; in Bethesda, Maryland. Founder of the Catholic journal Triumph, he wrote for the National Review, co-authored a book sympathetic to Joseph McCarthy with brother-in-law William Buckley and helped write speeches for Barry Goldwater...
...Brent Hershman just wanted to get home. He had worked a 19-hour day as an assistant cameraman on the set of Pleasantville, a comedy starring Jeff Daniels, and he had about an hour's drive ahead of him. When he got on the road, it was already 1 a.m., but he had promised his eight-year-old daughter that he would be home when she woke...
Hershman "was a big guy with a huge smile," says Bruce McLeery, the chief lighting technician on Pleasantville. "He had been away from home for 22 hours, and the day before he had worked 15 hours." McLeery understands why Hershman attempted the drive. "Brent's little girl was sick, and he told her on the phone that he would be there," he says. But after working so many hours, McLeery adds, "you're impaired. You might as well be drunk...