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Forty years ago, the Brattle Theatre held "Casablanca" festivals during Harvard's reading period. The "Bogie Cult" following was better than that of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Students would crowd the place, sing "La Marseillaise" with the actors and emerge from the theatre, ready to take on their exams, if not the Germans...
...evidence overwhelming, could they not also, just as honestly, find it unpersuasive? No, it was not the jury that was thinking in terms of categorical behavior; it was much of white America. And if that were so, the shock expressed at the polar reactions to the verdict was a Casablanca "shocked." Who was hiding what, from whom...
...version of 'Casablanca' meets 'Raiders of the Lost Ark,'" said David J. Eilenberg '97, whose musical-comedy, "Morocco Round the Clock" was chosen as the script for the 148th annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals production...
DIED. HOWARD KOCH, 93, screenwriter; in Woodstock, New York. A lawyer, Koch wrote radio plays for Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, notably 1938's panic-provoking War of the Worlds broadcast. His fine craft illuminated film scripts for Casablanca (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and-notoriously-the Soviet-friendly Mission to Moscow in 1943. Though not a communist, Koch was blacklisted in the 1950s. He outlived his vilifiers, enduring with grace and grit worthy of Bogart's Rick...
...theater will also be equipped to show filmclassics like "Casablanca," which was filmed witha nearly square-shaped format, or "Lawrence ofArabia," which used a wide-screen "Scope" format...