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...those still here on Thanksgiving Day, the Brattle will be screening this 1971 children’s classic and cautionary tale. You know the drill: Five greedy kids win a tour of a candy factory, where they are punished for their cravings in visually imaginative ways. Add in some Burt Bacharach songs, some garish ’70s set design, and Gene Wilder’s repressed, vaguely psychotic turn in the title role, and you’ve got a couple hours of kitschy fun to take in after you’re demolished your pumpkin...
...Kill Bill: Volume I sounds dangerously close to Charlie’s Angels: There are many martial arts action sequences, all of the main characters are women and one of them is played by Lucy Liu. However, whereas Angels was mindless fun, Kill Bill is an intricate homage to classic themes and styles strung together for the most fun and exciting film of the year. Within the film, one can see hints of Tarantino’s influences and tastes—spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong kung fu, Japanese samurai, anime—all adapted to fit into his unique...
Against the Buffaloes, who advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in last year’s tourney, Harvard should have its hands full as that newly discovered swagger is put to the test at the Subway Classic...
Grinning under her curly blonde wig, Campbell, 45, says that this is her first makeover. She’s an expert on classic films who calls Monroe “an inspiration.” In fact, Campbell says, the first time she ever cross-dressed was at the Brattle’s “Transgender Tuesday” event in 1997, where gender-bending was rewarded with a half-price ticket...
Though Gross has thus far offered up a decidedly mixed bag of fresh initiatives and classic administrative inertia, there is just cause for future concern. No matter how well conceived or implemented, any effort that Gross undertakes to improve social life stands to be undermined by the revolutionary shifts in academic culture being proposed in Mass. Hall. A state-of-the-art student center in Hilles, a streamlined event approval process and an end to party curfews would add little value to student life if increased academic burdens keep students from making use of them...