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...managed to mix work and play: meet Caleb I. Franklin ’05, a former Class Marshall who is now trying to get to know the ins and outs of Hollywood. After graduation, Franklin traveled to India for a year and a half with the George Peabody Gardner traveling fellowship. “I participated in Total Film, a project that teaches about 1,000 Indian kids how to make movies. I worked in Bollywood, and filmed a documentary on the human hair trade called ‘100% HAIR,’” he says. Franklin...
...shape. You have to wonder if making us feel bad for about 99% of a movie in order to make us feel good later is really a healthy thing for the actor or for the audience patiently enduring a string of bitter blows as his character, Chris Gardner, struggles to claim his share of the American dream and maintain his loving relationship with his son (played by Smith's own child, Jaden). You also have to wonder why director Gabriele Muccino chose to dramatize the poor man's plight by having him run constantly through the streets of San Francisco...
...Gardner is based on a real character, a bright and ambitious young man who had everything required to succeed--except the right skin color. Do we believe he will triumph? Of course we do; they don't make major motion pictures about uninstructive failures. Do we care about Gardner and son? Oddly, we do, because they are so appealingly played. What more might we wish for them? A movie that's a lot less repetitive...
...little critically acclaimed architecture here in the 30 years since the construction of I.M. Pei’s John Hancock Tower—an iconic building, but an engineering disaster.This trend is on the verge of reversal, however, with major expansion projects underway at the MFA, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Harvard’s own Fogg Museum, bringing projects by superstar architects Norman Foster and Renzo Piano to Boston for the first timeBut if there are several developments on the horizon, the ICA is the crown jewel in the city’s architectural tiara. Many...
...selected from Rockefeller’s archives—that curator Kevin Bubriski printed himself. The photographs are respectfully left untitled and arranged in a narrative fashion similar to that of “Gardens of War,” the book compiled in 1968 by Robert G. Gardner ’48, who led the 1961 expedition.The exhibition follows inhabitants of the Grand Valley Dani through the cycles of daily life as shaped by war and its repercussions. While the structure of the show may be didactic, Rockefeller’s images are so compelling that it?...