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...hardly have a chance to take advantage of all the wonders of the Big Apple. When I volunteered to write this piece for The Crimson two months ago, I imagined I would tell people of the joys of hearing Roy Hargrove at the Village Vanguard, of seeing a Broadway show, of watching the recently surging Yankees play ball in the Bronx. Instead, I’ve fashioned the archetype of a writer’s home, the idyllic place of no distractions. I have no TV. I connect to the Internet by stealing wireless bandwidth from my neighbors...
However, I have come to realize there will be a time for the internship seeking, résumé building, and social networking that define the lives of many Harvard students—namely September. For now, I plan on spending my time on myself, discovering new Broadway shows, visiting New York’s rich collection of museums, and doing just about anything else fun I can find. Though I won’t have any standout lines to add to my résumé by the end of this summer—unless licking envelopes has suddenly...
...that the roots of Tanweer's rage lay in "the persecution of Muslims worldwide" and the slaughter of innocents in Palestine and Iraq. "Wouldn't you want to fight if you saw your brotherhood, children and babies attacked?" he said. That view is not limited to Leeds. In Southall Broadway, west London, Sarfraz Hussain, 24, helps his uncle run the Kashmir Karahi restaurant. "People here are getting angry because of what's happening in other countries," such as Afghanistan and Iraq, he says. "For years now, no one has been listening to the Muslims. They're trying...
What also makes Bears a Linklater film is the naturalness of most of the actors. "He gets these honest performances out of these kids," says the film's co-writer Glenn Ficarra, "not this Broadway, arms-akimbo stuff." Linklater casts people whose personality already matches the part and lets them be themselves. For the two biggest non-adult roles he used kids who had never acted before, but played ball. "You can't teach a kid to throw in three weeks," he says. "You get a baseball player who can be herself...
...screenwriter; in Los Angeles. Though in the 1960s he specialized in adapting stage works such as West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he achieved his greatest glory the previous decade, when he used his background in publicity to craft two glorious Broadway vipers, J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), for the film Sweet Smell of Success, and wrote Alfred Hitchcock's smartest, snazziest caper, North by Northwest. In 2001 he became the first screenwriter to be awarded an honorary Oscar...