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...proper treatment of the story, but director Marcus Stern of Cambridge’s American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) begs to differ—he’s preparing a theatrical adaptation of the film. How then does one take on the daunting task of retelling such a sacred cow as “Donnie Darko?” SCREEN TO STAGE “Of course it’s open to interpretation,” said Stern, “but I pursued one version that made sense to me. I’m sure there are 20 others...
...Ouija board in season four of the “Sopranos.” The music is meant to follow the lyrics’ lead: hence the thunder sounds when Eleanor is talk-singing about thunderstorms on “Ex-Guru,” and the monkey and cow noises in “The Old Hag is Sleeping” to indicate the rooster at dawn. Again, I once would have found this charming and imaginative. But the obscure lyrics rarely coalesce into a coherent narrative and the supporting noises only detract from the rather impressive hard rock...
Even random research projects deserve recognition. Last week’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in Sanders Theatre did just that, celebrating the most improbable research done this past year. This class of winners canvassed everything from vanilla fragrance via cow poop to a “gay bomb” that made enemy soldiers mind-numbingly sexy to each other. (Sounds dangerous—and fabulous!) War-time orgies aside, the awards also mentioned a study on the effects of Viagra on jet-lagged hamsters. Diego A. Golombek, who conducted the study, flew in from Argentina to accept...
...laureates with samples of ice cream that he jokingly claimed to have been inspired by one jet-setting laureate’s work. Mayu Yamamoto said she had flown all the way from Japan to receive her prize for the discovery of a process to extract vanillin from cow dung. In the chicken-themed “24/7 Lectures,” presenters were challenged to deliver a lecture in their field of study twice—the first time in 24 seconds or less, and the second time using exactly seven words. 1976 Nobel Laureate and Harvard professor...
...founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream as honorary members yesterday afternoon. To mark the occasion, a local Ben & Jerry’s store gave away 1,000 scoops of ice cream in front of the Lampoon Castle, and Mt. Auburn Street was decorated with several cardboard cow cutouts, a live cow in a trailer, and a Ben & Jerry’s banner on the castle itself. One of the founders, Ben Cohen, told the assembled crowd, “In our long careers as ice cream men, everything pales in comparison to being honorary members...