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...says Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel. It’s a strange prospect for a band whose past consisted of selling demo tapes out of guitar cases during sidewalk performances in Harvard Square. Fourteen years since Guster’s inception, Rosenworcel and bandmates Ryan Miller, Adam Gardner, and Joe Pisapia are still making music. They’ve lost the demos and gone digital, trading sidewalks for stadiums as the music industry has forced them to evolve. In an effort to thank the fans that saw them through the transition from Tufts University freshmen to hometown heroes, Guster embarked...
...take a minute just sit right there, to tell you how he became…a broke, single father living on the streets? As an actor, Will Smith has come a long way from the posh neighborhood of Bel-Air, starring as down and out single father Chris Gardner in Gabriel Muccino’s new film “The Pursuit of Happyness.” But Smith’s sincere performance can’t quite carry the predictable film, and it ultimately disappoints...
...Gardner, Smith plays a struggling salesman unable to pay the rent or support his family in San Francisco in the early eighties. After his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Gardner takes an unpaid internship at stock brokerage firm Dean Witter in hopes of securing a job at the end of six months...
...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...
...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...