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...earth movie star. In the '60s I attended a meeting with colleagues in Hollywood, and we were in the Ambassador Hotel the night Barbra Streisand had her opening at the Cocoanut Grove. After the show there were stars galore in a hospitality room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I grew up in his home state of Nebraska, and we must have talked...
...systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert Reynolds (an Air Force contractor who died in a then-unexplained plane crash) was told that the official accident report could not be revealed because it would reveal sensitive information.As it turns out, Reynolds wasn’t testing secret equipment as the government claimed. But in “Secrecy,” the secrets themselves are not the point. Although Galison...
...reported a surge of young engaged couples asking for a diamond's certificate of origin. Meanwhile, DiCaprio's greenie documentary The 11th Hour made just $700,000. "There's a 99% chance your film won't have an impact," says writer-director Paul Haggis, whose movies have tackled racism (Crash), euthanasia (Million Dollar Baby) and the mental health of Iraq-war veterans (In the Valley of Elah). "It would be hubris to think otherwise...
...only these, anyway—but rather a lack of space in the beds themselves. Perhaps it was Harvard’s intention to promote undergraduate chastity by supplying such inadequate sleeping arrangements; if it was, however, the college has failed. Students still pair up after parties and crash with their significant others—they just do so uncomfortably. Some have gone to great lengths to secure a comfortable night’s sleep. Harvard needs to recognize the needs of its students and satisfy them...
...Muse ’11. Muse said that the burglar then asked her for a person whose name she did not recognize. “I got really freaked out, so I locked my [bedroom] door,” said Muse. “Then I heard a loud crash, and the door slammed.” When Muse walked out of her bedroom into the common room, she said that she noticed that her roommate’s television and laptop were missing. The victim, who declined to comment on the incident, was not present at the time...