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...your book." He had read the book, written a screenplay on spec (i.e., without financial guarantees) and sent it to Mel over the transom. Mel read the script and called Jason from his private jet--presumably flying from one bankruptcy court to another--to say it was brilliant and exactly the script he had hoped for and he would absolutely make it. And that was the last Jason Reitman ever heard from...
DIED. MAUREEN STAPLETON, 80, brilliant, adamantly unglamorous actress who, despite an utterly unpretentious style--"The main thing is to keep the audience awake," she said of her craft--won awards and critical raves for astute, rich performances over her 60-year career; in Lenox, Mass. She got her break in 1951 as a passionate Italian-American widow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won a Tony. Later she created roles in Neil Simon plays like Plaza Suite and won an Oscar for her portrayal of anarchist Emma Goldman in the 1981 film Reds...
Many students make brilliant use of media in their work, embedding audio files and video clips in their presentations, but the habit of grazing among many data streams leaves telltale signs in their writing, according to some educators. "The breadth of their knowledge and their ability to find answers has just burgeoned," says Roberts of his students at Stanford, "but my impression is that their ability to write clear, focused and extended narratives has eroded somewhat." Says Koonz: "What I find is paragraphs that make sense internally, but don't necessarily follow a line of argument...
...large side panel of bright white and set to rather restrained 17th-century violin music by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, the movement is rigorously athletic and ultra-contemporary, with flamboyant leaps that corkscrew in the air and hyperextended limbs thrown in all directions. Jazzy inflections color brilliant shifts in dynamic and direction, imbuing the whole piece with a kind of exuberant nervous energy. In particular, the male pas de deux towards the end of the performance provides the most dramatic and skillful interpretation. Mark Morris’s “Up and Down,” the best...
...Harvard women fencers flew home to Boston in the midst of the final day of the men’s competition, the Crimson men polished off a brilliant two-day run en route to claiming the program’s first ever national championship...