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...real human needs, desires, and failings—he scrounged for money, relished fame and attention, and lusted after women. Morris weaves together the music with the life and gives us members of the tone-deaf public a clear glimpse into the trials and turmoil that go into making genius...
...Humor.” Now Damrosch, who holds the Berenbaum chair in literature, could soon add another impressive credential to his intimidating curriculum vitae: this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction. Damrosch is the author of “Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius,” one of five nominees for the prestigious award. Damrosch—who has already introduced hundreds of Harvard students to the world of Rousseau in Literature and Arts A-72: “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” which he will offer again next fall...
...Bennett Miller’s new film, “Capote,” chronicling the time Truman Capote spent researching and writing his novel “In Cold Blood.” Haven’t we all encountered at least one remarkably talented but socially stunted genius like Capote? And what undergrad worth his Literature and Arts A requirement is not interested in a deconstruction of the literary process?If that weren’t enough, Miller directs Philip Seymour Hoffman to a haunting portrayal of the complexities of the gadfly author that should satisfy the entertainment...
...Luna) and Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave’s Tom Morello ’86 spent their undergraduate careers as mild-mannered Social Studies concentrators, and didn’t find real musical success until after leaving the Square. Perhaps Harvard is holding back musical genius, after all.Take the post-punk ensemble Blanks. When the band formed in 2003, members Matt Boch ’06-07, Jon Carter ’06-07, Long Le-Khac ’06, and John T. Drake ’06 seemed logistically ahead of the curve. Already possessing their...
...Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate world...