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...tape era. David Frost, a Footlights secretary, would soon launch himself as a TV comedy mogul with That Was the Week That Was and The Frost Report, for which he drew on Oxbridge grads, including all five British Pythons, as writers and performers. (Later Footlighters included Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Douglas Hitchhiker Adams and, some sources say, Baron Cohen...
...necessities are actually luxuries. For now, I’m going to relax about the lack of wireless in my suite, and resort to some of those quaint traditions of yesteryear. But if it’s not fixed by October, I’m transferring to the Quad. Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House...
...Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America” receives consistently high marks. And if that’s not enough of a specific year for you, there’s another; B-34, “The World in 1776,” team-taught by visiting professor Emma Rothschild, Richard Tuck, and Sugata Bose. But heed the word on the street that this class should be avoided—the three professors do little to coordinate their lectures, and topics that one would expect the class to focus on (the American Revolution, perhaps?) rarely come up.Fudging...
...rudderless. "It's not schizophrenia," he patiently explains to a shrink he visits. "It's just a voice talking in my head." He also seeks advice from Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), an English professor who helps Harold locate the source of the voice: that of reclusive novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson), whose current project is a book, about an I.R.S. agent named Harold Crick, called Death and Taxes. Harold fears that when she completes the novel, he'll die. Which is fine by Hilbert, a great admirer of Eiffel. "You have to die," he tells Harold. "It's her masterpiece...
...parallels with the current situation? Speaking to one of the Guildford Four recently, his reaction is: "Those poor guys, those Muslims - that's exactly what happened to us. Has nobody learned?" The Guildford Four's story was the subject of a film, In the Name of the Father, with Emma Thompson playing you - yet you recoil from publicity. Did that make you feel uncomfortable? I haven't seen the film, although I thought it was extremely important that the story of the Conlon family be told. I think the lawyer was just used as a dramatic device. I wasn...