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When a few Harvard undergraduates and some recent alums got together about five years ago to build SparkNotes.com, an online repository of short-and-sweet commentary on classic works of literature, they exhibited an entrepreneurial spirit characteristic of the late 90s dotcom boom that surrounded them. That particular wave of fervor more or less subsided when the bottom fell out of the stock market; however, it seems that Harvard’s own version of the internet land-grab is still in full swing. By my best count, somewhere between six and eight unique web-based services written...
...Turkish Bath was one of Picasso's icons, and bits of it recur constantly in Picasso's work - in the 1906 The Harem, 1918's The Bathers, in jokey etchings of 1968-71. In 1968, Picasso also did a series of erotic and scatological etchings based on Ingres' classic painting of Raphael and La Fornarina - taking the bad-boy rebel's backhanded artistic homage back a third generation to the Renaissance master they both revered. After March's whirlwind, April in Paris promises an even purer form of beauty - the chestnut trees will be in bloom...
...guaranteed to line up for on opening weekend is July’s Anchorman, in which Will Ferrell brings his Goulet voice (and its accompanying egomania) to the big screen. People who have seen the script have said that Anchorman could be a modern classic, and so far they’ve been proven right by the clip reel on the movie’s website (Ferrell to his dog: “You pooped in the refrigerator? . . . . I’m not even mad! That’s amazing!”). In the fall...
...usual, the year’s end is rich with prestige films that studios will cast out as juicy Oscar bait. One of my most cherished films, The Manchurian Candidate, is being remade with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep on board. Though remakes of classic films are only occasionally successful, this pedigree will guarantee at least a vastly entertaining mess (I can hear those Gus Van Sant Psycho violins...
...freshman I was in a play called “Drop Dead,” about a bunch of really horrible actors who try to put on a play while everything goes wrong. So, of course, in a classic instance of life imitating art, everything went wrong with our production: No one had their lines memorized; I couldn’t deliver one of my monologues without laughing; and our set kept falling apart...