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...announced the arrival of the Method actor and the sexy brute in one galvanizing package. Yet Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen. The Academy went for old style over new, as it did in withholding Oscars from Brando's more sensitive brethren, Montgomery Clift and James Dean. Both were multiple nominees; neither won. And like Heath Ledger--who in Brokeback Mountain gave a bold, pioneering performance--neither Clift nor Dean lived long enough to be given an honorary award...
...least Clift, Dean and Ledger had the luck to be making serious dramas from Oscar-winning directors. Anyone who worked in other kinds of movies ran into the wall of the Academy's genre snobbery. Crime movies (later known as film noir) had a dark glory, a stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II clarified yesterday that the working draft does not in fact include this stipulation. The option of employing BAT teams at Stein Clubs will remain up to the discretion of individual House masters, he wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...students spending part of this academic year abroad aren’t juniors, according to associate director of Cornell Abroad Kristen A. Grace. Likewise, ten of the 150 Princetonians who went abroad last academic year were sophomores, according to an e-mailed statement from Nancy Kanach, associate dean of the College at Princeton...
...couple were friends for “a long time,” Laura says, so long that they “just decided to get married.” The decision was so low-key that when Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach asked if the proposal was official, Shahram was confused: “She said, official, you know—on your knees. We were all walking through Boston Common, through two feet of snow. I dropped to the ground right there...