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...Broadway, with Turner joined by a couple of young Hollywood stars, Jason Biggs and Alicia Silverstone. The show serves up the familiar story of a directionless college grad who is seduced by his parents' friend, trots out most of the memorable lines ("Plastics!") and even gives Turner a brief, dimly lighted nude scene. And it's pretty much a disaster...
...experienced a brief flash of irritation, thinking that for $80 a night, one might reasonably expect a television. But I quickly figured that, free of the insidious temptations of the idiot box, I would spend my time in the hotel far more productively: drinking beer on the bougainvillaea-draped patio, listening to the chirps of the wriggling geckos on the walls, and watching the world go by. And should I grow weary of my tropical tranquility, the downstairs bar beckoned. Complete with dusty wickerwork chairs, an ancient gramophone and a scattering of pith helmets, it looks straight...
Mitchell spoke last Wednesday in the popular course Literature and Arts A-18: Fairy Tales and Children’s Literature, and later gave a brief question and answer session at the Harvard Film Archive. Mitchell appeared at the request of course instructor and Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar after meeting her on the Today Show to discuss the Harry Potter phenomenon. Both hit it off and Mitchell was more than happy to speak as a guest lecturer. During his lecture Mitchell discussed the film versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a key book...
...strangeness of this premise is only part of what sets Notable American Women apart, as Marcus discusses this world not only in his own voice and the voices of his parents, but in a third-person documentary style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones...
...four years old that I did not go. I thought it would be great to be at Harvard, where I could take college friends and really enjoy the day. Instead, I sat in class for three hours and had to watch the six o’clock news for brief highlighted footage...