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Quine led the second golden age of the Harvard philosophy department along with John Rawls, the political theorist, and philosophers Stanley Cavell and Hillary Putnam, according to Warren Goldfarb, Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic. (During the first golden age, at the turn of the century, the department was led by Henry James, Josiah Royce and George Santayana...
...just a commanding position in American philosophy," said Goldfarb, who knew Quine as a member of the Society of Fellows, as a professor and as a student. "This is what set new directions in philosophy...
Requiem chronicles two stories of addiction. One centers on a lonely, elderly housewife, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her addiction to weight-loss pills. Goldfarb's addiction begins when she is informed that she might have the possibility of being on television, which for her represents the only ESCAPE from her loneliness. The other story revolves around Sara's son Harry (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans in a surprisingly serious role). These two LOVERS and their best friend try to find the drug that will lift them out of the ugliness...
...interesting because that film is about a TV junkie, and Sarah Goldfarb is a TV junkie in this film, and sort of an addict dealing with real sex and real violence. Stylistically I've always been interested in fusing, in the idea of filmmaking that when you're walking down the street, you're not really just walking down the street, you're thinking about the conversation you had three hours ago, or you're thinking about the vacation you're going to take with your best friend in two weeks, and your mind is drifting to some house...
...never interested in making a drug movie. A lot of people were saying "Why are you making a drug movie?" and I say "It's not a drug movie." What makes this film interesting for me to tell was the Sara Goldfarb story, this counterpoint that says here is a traditional drug story of Harry, Tyrone, and Marion that we've seen before, but the Sara story we've never seen before. What it shows us is that anything can be a drug; it doesn't have to be heroin. It could be TV, it could be coffee, it could...