Word: fame
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...another. Giving himself a more limited role as the director of “Purim,” Guest relies on mainstays like Jennifer Coolidge (best known as “Stifler’s Mom” of “American Pie” fame), Catherine O’Hara, and Parker Posey, among others, to keep the witty and often nonsensical humor at its height. As the film’s producer, Coolidge gives her usual hysterical, Botox-enhanced performance. O’Hara—playing the role of the aging actress with emerging hopes...
...field.”“It felt,” Walt recalls, “like glory just had sex with me.”Tim, a 2006 graduate, describes his final Game experience in similar, if not so colorful language. He and a roommate achieved relative fame last year when they snuck onto the field and kidnapped Yale’s bulldog mascot, Handsome Dan XVI.“Um, yeah,” they told the handler, “we’re going to need the dog for a special halftime finale...
...Beach Or at least a Beach Boy. Brian Wilson of “Good Vibrations” fame plays at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre on Friday night. The rumored-to-be unstable Wilson is in town for one night only, the same weekend as Harvard-Yale. Coincidence? Fri., Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. Orpheum Theatre. Tickets $35-$75, available at www.ticketmaster.com...
...artscience,” attempting to put their dreams into tangible form. McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards focuses on applying his own ideas and research to real life problems, and he challenges his students to do the same. Edwards, who has gained fame for his innovative biomedical research, serves as an enabler for his students, pairing them with experts in whatever field they express interest. Edwards wrote in an e-mail that student projects include everything from “a new kind of interactive toy bear?...
...Somehow, decades after her brief fame, in a last-minute rescue so late it was nearly post-mortem, Brooks triumphed. In 1953, Henri Langlois of Paris' Cinematheque Francaise spearheaded the revival of her reputation by proclaiming, "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" The cue for his effusion was George Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 German melodrama Pandora's Box, in which Brooks plays Lulu, an innocent beguiler who radiates sexuality so unself-consciously toxic that it drives men mad - beyond lust, to disgrace and murder...