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...Since 1999, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic has purged his frustration by programming an annual collection of films he considers to have been overlooked by the marketplace. ?Overlooked can mean several things. Some are films that never found their audience in the movie theaters; others were never picked up by a distributor; still others are in film idioms that are simply considered archaic - silent films or 70mm spectacles, for example...
...years, Christopher F. Durang ’71 has acquired more than a few labels. A Harvard professor once called him “mischievous.” A New York Times critic described him as “insidiously satisfying.” And one Jesuit Priest tagged him “a pig trampling in a sanctuary.”He included that last epithet in his Yale School of Drama application, and he got in. It wasn’t the first time that controversy powered this year’s Harvard Arts Medal recipient?...
...Though a critic of the University, he was also a benefactor. In 1967, he anonymously donated all future royalties from his bestselling book, "The Affluent Society," to a fund for students "facing an unexpected crisis in their lives," according to Parker. Galbraith and Harvard administrators understood that the money would be used to fund abortions, Parker said...
...occasional Bush critic, Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college "and realized it was all indecipherable hokum." Colon cancer kept him off the air for eight weeks last year. During that time, says Snow, an attendee of Catholic and Episcopal churches, prayers by strangers increased his faith. He took the White House job after a scan of his vital organs came back "pristine...
...TiVo in my bedroom isn’t working’ hard. ‘Making a living for the ones you love’ hard.” Delivering such lines as these, Bob becomes an endearing mixture of a dorky dad and a sarcastic cultural critic. Cultural awareness is not particular to Williams’ character; the film largely uses contemporary societal issues as comic ammunition. Bob’s job at a soda company and his rental of an R.V. make room for characters to voice clever remarks about obesity and gas inefficiency in America, respectively...