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...Elliot Forbes ’40, a much-loved Harvard music professor who inspired generations of students and opened new doors for Beethoven research, died in his sleep on Jan. 10 in his Memorial Drive home, family members said...
...story of “The Baxter” begins at the end, with an uncertain Elliot waiting for his bride on the day of his wedding. In the scenes that follow, the unglamorous Elliot narrates the events that lead him to his precarious situation at the altar. A platonic romance begins when Elliot improbably meets magazine editor Caroline Swann (Elizabeth Banks) and somehow becomes her fiancé. When Bradley Lake (Justin Theroux of “Six Feet Under” ), the love of Caroline’s life, resurfaces shortly before the couple’s wedding, poor...
Cecil Mills (Michelle Williams) an oddball office temp by day and “singer” by night befriends Elliot. She also just happens to be the perfect woman for him (she’s read up to the G’s in dictionary), but of course he is too oblivious to throw caution to the Brooklyn winds and seize Cecil...
Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of the film is its pacing and the endless reiteration that Elliot is not right for Caroline and he is The Baxter of all Baxters. For example, there’s Elliot’s mantra, “Compromise is the key to success,” Caroline’s Freudian slip when she introduces Elliot as her friend and Bradley as her fiancé, and Elliot’s hilarious if not pathetic plan to honeymoon at Yellowstone Park complete with “camping, fishing, and guided tours...
...amazing. When Plum Pictures, which is a small New York film production company started by a Harvard graduate, Galt Niederhoffer [’97], said “we want to make this movie and we want you to direct it.” I was instantly psyched. Playing Elliot was something that I wavered on because I really didn’t see myself in that role. I’m still conflicted about playing that role. I want to continue to perform, but I’m really more passionate in terms of the writing and directing...