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...record for the longest monopoly game, playing for 50 hours in a Currier House elevator. According to the maker of Monopoly, the current record is 1680 hours. FM thinks it’s only a matter of time before Harvard students organize the largest gathering of people dressed like Conrad??s rival, Heidi Montag, but Cronin isn’t sure that there will be enough interest. “I think people would rather dress like Lauren,” she says. If any students are willing to give it a shot, FM will provide the creepy...
This is a quote from Joseph Conrad??s “Heart of Darkness,” which is referenced repeatedly in Peter Jackson’s new version of “King Kong.” In some ways it describes Jackson himself; after conquering the box office and the critical world with his “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, movie studios were falling over themselves in his praise and to hire him. Universal succeeded. Jackson was given $200 million to remake “King Kong,” Marion...
...Spritz is a celebrity. Like any average Joe, he’s constantly screwing up with his kids and wife, but these mistakes are all the more pathetic in light of his glib on-camera persona. Though the depressive aspect of Cage’s character risks monotony, Steve Conrad??s script puts him through a variety of humiliating encounters that bring out the more narcissistic and violent sides of Spritz’s madness. In this latest film, Gore Verbinski seems to be maturing away from the juvenile swashbuckling action of “Pirates...
...against drug traffickers, with innocent civilians and foreign tourists caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile, Mike tracks down his father’s onetime Holworthy Hall roommate, Christopher Dorr, a freelance journalist who has moved into a dense Bangkok shanty-town and who has become a modern-day version of Conrad??s sadistic Captain Kurtz...
...series of Tony Conrad compositions that he made in 1969 with a sine-wave oscillator called “Fantastic Glissando.” My roommate Josh thinks it sounds like a plane taking off. Table of the Elements has also released a 2-CD set of Tony Conrad??s 1972 collaboration with the Krautrock band Faust called “Outside the Dream Syndicate,” and it’s incredible. It’s really interesting to see how Faust’s stripped-down art-rock and Conrad??s avant-classically...