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...first caught Oldboy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
...medium, the Iraq-oriented portion of Smiley’s narrative might have seemed eloquent in a newspaper editorial. But by stuffing unremarkable political arguments between her erotic vignettes, Smiley reduces her “My Dinner with André” to a novelistic “Fahrenheit 9/11”—four years too late.—Reviewer April H.N. Yee can be reached at aprilyee@fas.harvard.edu...
...business. After braving the wind tunnel known as JFK Street, the bubble beckons with heat and hot bodies. Pushing through the revolving doors, your ears pop from the change in pressure and you find yourself in unseasonable warmth. The air in the bubble, kept between 56 and 62 degrees Fahrenheit, smells distinctly of plastic and sweat. Plus, it’s kind of thrilling entering a giant dome made of vinyl that could potentially deflate because of anything from wind, to snow, to someone opening too many of those pressurized doors. But don’t lose too much sleep...
...waited to buy tickets were also disappointed. By 10 p.m., 600 tickets had been sold for the event, which had a capacity for 400, according to David S. Jewett ’08, treasurer for Winthrop House Committee (HoCo) and an organizer of the event. Despite the 11 degree Fahrenheit weather forecast, as expected, the scantily dressed were in abundance. “There was a girl just wearing a bra,” says Jewett calmly the next morning. Adds Michael J. Mure ’09, social chair of Winthrop HoCo, “A guy was walking...
...minute before sunrise on a frigid morning last Friday, 70 brave—or foolish—souls channelled their inner Alaskan and plunged into the Charles River at the Alaska Klub’s third annual Polar Bear Swim. The air temperature was 19 degrees Fahrenheit, although the brisk Northwest wind and flurries of snow made it feel more like four, but that didn’t stop devoted Klub members and their friends from shedding their clothing—some with bathing suits beneath, some with nothing at all. “I’m very excited...