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Parma, a picturesque city in Northern Italy, is the home of Parmigianino Reggiano cheese, Prosciutto ham, and Barilla pasta. Lately, however, this food-famous city has also become the home of another, more foreign, specialty—Harvard football alums.Three recent Crimson graduates, Corey Mazza ’08, Danny Brown ’07, and former captain Ryan Tully ’07, are now playing in the Italian Football League (IFL) with the Parma Panthers. “We’re having a good time over here, and [I’m] just getting to do what...
...Peter, a struggling composer, is devastated when his beautiful, TV-star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall, breaks up with him. To get over his ex, Peter takes the advice of his brother and jets off to Hawaii. Upon his arrival, he learns that Sarah and her new boyfriend, a famous singer, are also spending the week there. With Segel writing his own scenes, it’s no surprise that he would play the same kind of character that he’s used to: a somewhat clueless, well-intentioned goofball. Though funny at times, Peter doesn’t gain respect...
...jazz saxophonist who will receive this year’s Harvard Arts Medal, as an example of an important figure with whom many students might not be familiar. Everett says that many students who hear Redman’s name will react by saying he’s a famous saxophone player, but far more will have no clue who he is. “It’s a small group of people who are knowledgeable about the music, and maybe it’s always going to be that way to a degree,” he says...
...little lies you tell become a giant fabrication? “The Runner,” the highly enjoyable debut book of David J. Samuels ’89, directly confronts this question, delving into the twisted world of Jim Hogue, the Ivy League’s most famous conman. Assuming and shedding identities the way one might try on a pair of jeans, Hogue successfully parlayed his way into one of the country’s most highly esteemed universities and the homes of some of the wealthiest Americans, before eventually being caught and sentenced to a cell block...
There is a famous saying, attributed alternately to Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, that goes: “If you’re going to tell people the truth, you’d better make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.” For South African playwright Pieter-Dirk Uys, this statement is hauntingly literal. His most recent one-man production, “Elections and Erections,” currently being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre, showcases the wry satire and verbal wit that has defined his career. The performance?...