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When The Women by Clare Boothe Luce opened on Broadway in 1936, Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times critic, snarled that it contained "some of the most odious harpies ever collected in one play." It nevertheless became a huge hit, despite the fact that there has never been any reason to question his judgment - not when the 1939 movie version came along, and certainly not now as we cringingly confront writer-director Diane English's completely miscalculated remake...
...starred in The Broadway Melody, the first talkie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, yet actress Anita Page was known for her work in silent films. The New York City native was cast in many silent movies, notably alongside Joan Crawford in 1928's Our Dancing Daughters, though when her MGM contract ended in 1933, Page all but disappeared from film...
...Field Parking Garage and solar panels on two University-owned buildings according to James Gray, associate vice president for the Harvard real estate services. The University will begin installing the solar panels next week on the rooftops of two buildings—one on Prescott Street and another on Broadway. Gray said he hopes that the panels will produce enough energy to provide all the hot water for the buildings. The wind turbines, five small ones on the Holyoke Center and two larger ones on the parking garage, will be installed sometime this year. The primary purpose of the turbines...
What did you enjoy about making these movies? This might sound corny or cheesy, but I just loved acting, doing dialogue. All my friends were still doing theater off-off-Broadway and I was doing film. Yes it's porn, but it still goes into theaters. They still had acting back then. They had big scripts. There were no videos back then, no DVDs, no Internet. I came at a time they called the Golden...
...cleanse by annihilating; that's what Dr. Strangelove and other black comedies of the '60s did. But genuine satire is hard to find on the big screen these days, or any day, because its strident moralist tone tends to alienate audiences. In the definition of the form by Broadway writer-director George S. Kaufman, "Satire is what closes on Saturday night...