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...gem of opening weekend, Russian Ragtime has perhaps the most tenuous link to Judaism of any film in the festival. It is suggested that the father of Misha, the protagonist, left Misha's mother because she was Jewish. That's it. Ragtime would fit more easily into a Communist or Russian Film Festival than a Jewish Film Festival, and any festival would be glad to have...
...game that saw eight fumbles, some decidedly un-special special teams play and a halftime score that looked like the final from the first Harvard-Princeton game 90 years ago, Giampaolo shook off mud and rain and drilled a gem through the uprights 43 yards away for the unlikeliest of 14-12 wins...
Jarmusch, for whom Young recorded the soundtrack of the underrated gem Dead Man, shows his deep-rooted love for the band through his engrossing, though repetitive, mix of interviews, concerts, and more interviews. He also uses old film footage to fine effect--for example, juxtaposing a scene of a very stoned Neil Young & Crazy Horse circa '76 (bearing an eerie resemblance to the guys from This is Spinal Tap) burning flowers in a Parisian hotel room with clips of the band today as elder statesmen of rock: men with a past that resonates in their music...
Duke also peppered the Harvard net. Sophomore Anya Cowan needed to stop 13 shots. In Harvard's last win, a 2-1 gem against Providence last Monday, Cowan made just three saves...
Vanessa Redgrave has also found a lost gem. She read in a Tennessee Williams biography about an unproduced play, Not About Nightingales, bought the rights to it from the estate and will co-produce it next year with the Royal National Theatre. Nightingales deals with life in a U.S. prison...