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...grand and dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open to his closest confidantes about his sexual proclivities...
THEATER | L’Historie et L’Enfant
This year, Lowell House Opera presents a pair of French works: Starvinsky’s L’Historie de Soldat and Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortileges. L’Historie is a “musical play” centered around a solider who gives his soul to the devil. L’Enfant is a one-act opera that tells the story of a young boy whose imagination gets the better of him. Directed by Sarah Meyers ’02 and Sean Ryan ’03. March...
Fought either in an arena or a steel cage, these battles inevitably draw comparisons to World Wrestling Entertainment, as both are staged fights between grown men. But it is the undercurrent of self-parody that gives these fights their hipster gravitas against the Rock et al. When Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a giant chicken noodle can with arms, legs and a steak knife, goes up against Los Plantanos, the heroic Spanish banana twins, the pretense of seriousness is thin...
...calling for a revolution in the way films are funded and distributed. In France, Italy and Germany, new laws pledge more support to films with mass appeal. Fresh alliances such as Indie Circle - a consortium of A-Films (the Netherlands), Cinéart (Belgium), Frenetic Films (Switzerland), Haut et Court (France) and Lucky Red (Italy) - have been launched to help get more films into more territories. Part of the challenge comes from a film culture that has resisted commercialization. In order to grab a bigger slice of Europe's box-office takings (which in 2002 were €5.6 billion), directors...