Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skinny Scott growing up in Los Angeles and larger Larry in South Bend, Ind., both obsessively making Super-8mm movies. Cut to the late '70s, when these film geeks become roommates at the University of Southern California after discovering a mutual love for trashy horror flicks like Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves up, they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history...
What gives Topsy-Turvy its heartfelt heft is the way in which it shows how this process takes over everyone's life--eventually driving out all distractions, whether they be Gordon's defeat at Khartoum, the sterilities of Gilbert's marriage or the many anxious neuroses of the acting company. It is show biz as therapy, with all tensions temporarily resolved when the show is a hit. But there is also a sense of real, very Mike Leighish, life in this film that darkens and transforms it. And transfixes...
...Faculty members include Georgi, Lewis, Director of the Parents Association Julia G. Fox and Associate Dean of the Faculty Laura Gordon Fisher...
...Harvard men's and women's track and field teams began their seasons with strong wins against Boston College on Saturday at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center...
...Saturday morning both the men's and women's indoor track teams will open their seasons against Boston College at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center. Both teams are expected to dominate the Eagles this weekend, but the real competition will follow in the coming months...