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...every Ebert review of a Scorsese title, as well as an array of essays, interviews, and the transcript of an on-stage discussion between the director and writer at The Ohio State University in 1997. Ebert has also gone back to write an additional "reconsideration" of a half-dozen select Scorsese titles. Even for those who consider themselves devout fans of the Scorsese canon, Scorsese By Ebert helps readers to see the overriding arc that connects his various titles - the themes of guilt, sin, ego and hope that surface time and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ebert on Scorsese | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...First, it was simply riddled with factual errors. For example, contrary to your statement that resident deans are “outranked” by the faculty, in fact there are only two or three faculty members on the Ad Board at any time, and over a dozen resident deans; we all get equal votes. Even if we didn’t take the resident deans seriously as you suggest (and we do), they could simply outvote us. As another example, contrary to your statement, in disciplinary cases students are always allowed to present their side of the story, both...

Author: By Michael D. Mitzenmacher | Title: Ad Board Editorial Flawed and Inaccurate | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Cai’s mother told a story about how Peter, originally named Wei, got his first name. “When Peter was three years old, our friends told us to give him an American name” she said. “We tried a dozen names, but none stuck. Finally, one day, Peter was watching television, and he turned to me and said, ‘Just call me Peter, like Peter Rabbit!’” While those closest to Cai remembered his abundant spirit, those who knew him in a professional context spoke...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cai Mourned at Campus Service | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...psychodrama ghost story Memories Within Miss Aggie (1974) and the dreamy, Marienbadesque The Story of Joanna (1975). But by then, porno was an industry, and it relied less on artistic pretension than on grinding out product. In the next 20 years, Damiano put his name on another three dozen or so hardcore movies, none of which made much of an impact. Like silent-film director D.W. Griffith in the talkie era, Damiano was a pioneer whom new trends left behind. According to the local News-Press, he "lived out his final years in Fort Myers quietly, enjoying theater, attending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porn's Pied Piper: Deep Throat Director Dies | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...words on a white banner at the back of the stage present the date or the location, or the depiction of imaginary events, allowing the three large square backdrops to be moved around and create the rest of the spectacle.There are a number of scenes that feature nearly a dozen people on-stage at a time, requiring complicated choreography for the characters dancing or singing or wreaking havoc. When Nicolae and Elena are chased by revolutionary forces, soldiers hoist the various backdrops, spinning them around the stage as the two characters run frantically to escape. The result is a well...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Communist Dracula Wins Pageant | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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