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...past,” Van Devere said. “As a dramatist, I look at this blank slate and don’t have to impose anything. I can pull things out that have been obscured by time.” Consisting of several Harvard undergraduates, the cast of “John Harvard” started rehearsing two and a half months prior to the two days of filming in April. The movie was filmed primarily at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House at the Cambridge Historical Society, the second oldest house in Cambridge. Alex R. Breaux...
Stephen Colbert is dead. Not the man, the legend. Suddenly, our favorite right-wing nutjob is just an expensive suit and a raised eyebrow. He perished Nov. 5, along with Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, and the entire cast of Saturday Night Live...
...Hickenlooper, TV writer Jill Kushner and actor-writer Joel Marshall were editing dozens of short black and white public service announcements featuring actors like Holly Hunter, Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jenna Elfman, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Benjamin, Ed Asner, David Schwimmer and the cast of Ugly Betty. Each of the 15-second to four-minute spots, which can be seen on deadlinehollywooddaily.com over the weekend and on speechlesswithoutwriters.com as of Nov. 26, is a riff on the theme "speechless." Hunter discovers her script has been outsourced to India; Linney tries to overcome her writer...
Australian elections have become increasingly presidential, and Labor cast this one as a two-man race: Kevin vs John, youth vs age, the future vs the past. A vote for Rudd was a vote for someone new. But not too different. Cartoonists drew Rudd as a mini-Howard. A satirical video on YouTube cast the Chinese-speaking Labor leader as Chairman Mao, with subtitles reading: "Rudd unnerve decrepit Howard with clever strategy of 'similar difference.'" Rather than attacking Howard's strengths, Rudd appropriated them. "I am not a socialist," Rudd insisted. "I am an economic conservative." On issue after issue...
...economic management as an issue. The thrust of his case is that Australia's strong economy is less the result of any judicious handling on the part of the government than of the ongoing minerals boom and watershed reforms undertaken in the 1980s by Labor governments. He's repeatedly cast himself as an economic conservative and tried to prove it by declining to match the government's extravagant spending promises...