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...nearly 45 years, Roger Ebert has remained one of world's most influential film critics. Beginning his career as a 15-year-old sports writer with the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, he joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1966 and was named the paper's film critic within six months. His byline has appeared in the paper ever since. In the intervening decades, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and served as the host of a nationally-syndicated weekly TV program, in which he and Gene Siskel would assign films their trademarked thumbs-up, or thumbs-down...
...Lysistrata” sometimes bordered on absurdity, the humor created an original adaptation that highlighted the timeless feminist undertones of a classical play. Modernizing old classics to make them relatable again is a perilous venture, sometimes rewarding—like in the Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger film “Ten Things I Hate About You”—but often disastrous, such as in the Shakespeare-inspired Amanda Bynes flick “She’s the Man.” Although director James M. Leaf ’11 took great pains to keep...
Rozsa headed back to Hungary, to journalism, authoring several books of essays, memoirs and poetry and converting to Islam. In 2002, he starred in a film, named Chico - his nickname - based on his own life. It won first prize in Hungary's film festival in 2002. During this time, he seems to have taken a renewed interest in his birth country, Bolivia. "Santa Cruz is something that is omnipresent in my life," he said in a 2006 interview. "A constant. At the heart, I am cruceno" a denizen of Santa Cruz. On his website Sic Semper Tyrannus (Thus Always Tyranny...
...watched some film, and we talked to [Cohen] about some things that he could do, and he adjusted well,” Coach Tillman said after the contest against the Crusaders. “He tweaked where he was putting the ball and how he was shooting and I was impressed with that...
...mantra that at once belies and explains her confidence: “Act As If.”A short documentary of that title, written and directed by Melissa Johnson ’00, played last night at the AMC/Loews Boston Common Theater as part of the Boston International Film Festival. The festival began last Friday and runs through this Sunday, April 26. The mantra “act as if,” a hallmark of Delaney-Smith’s coaching philosophy dating back to her first days as a head coach, focuses on the importance of carrying...