Word: commissioners
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At the end of apartheid, South Africa had no film industry to speak of. Filmmakers had either been co-opted by the white regime for propaganda or driven underground. Foreign filmmakers - whose big budgets can help prop up smaller local industries - had stayed away. With apartheid gone and sanctions lifted...
If Hollywood found a great backdrop for its movies, it also fell in love with South Africa's stories. The end of apartheid narrative in particular - an epic of racist repression that climaxes in a transcendent moment of redemption under an iconic leader - is a movie script made real. And...
So it surprised us to know that they actually shower. According to reliable sources, a member of the duo was showering in the communal bathroom on the second floor of Weld after arriving on campus this afternoon. Members of the Harvard Concert Commission stood guard outside.
According to HCC director Julia C. Goldenheim, the Concert Commission provided showering spaces for some of Ratatat's crew. Mhmm Weld bathroom: that's some red carpet treatment. "Other people were in charge of this all day," Goldenheim said in an annoyed voice when asked to verify Ratatat's appearance...
Well, the Concert Commission must not have done a good job cleaning up those boys because they looked pretty damn greasy up on stage later that night. Next to all that laser light and steam clouds, they nearly glistened.