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...leadership of the senior class was indeed a crucial factor. Co-captain Kim Gould orchestrated the show, spreading the ball to a variety of weapons along the outside and down the middle. And Ogbechie, the Ivy League Player of the Year, and senior outside hitter Nilly Schweitzer, second team All-Ivy, led the attack for Harvard, pounding opponents with over three kills per game each...
...proof, Giamatti offers up Cinderella Man, a boxing movie opening this week in which Russell Crowe plays James J. Braddock, the Seabiscuit in Everlast trunks who lifted America's spirits during the Great Depression; Giamatti is Braddock's loudmouthed, good-hearted trainer Joe Gould. "Gould was actually his manager, but they fudge it and make me his trainer-manager," Giamatti says. "It kind of puts me where the action is." Giamatti loved wearing 1930s clothes, being around fighters and working with Crowe ("It was about as much fun as I've ever had with another actor"), and director Ron Howard...
Howard has a vested interest, but he thinks Joe Gould is the kind of role that could earn Giamatti an Oscar. At the very least, it's fine territory on which to build the next act of his career. As Gould, unlike such gigs as Limbo,the slave-trading orangutan in Planet of the Apes, or Kenny (Pig Vomit) Rushton in Private Parts, Giamatti gets to play more than just one exquisitely sweaty comic note. Howard thinks people are only now waking up to Giamatti's ability. "I so loved him as Pig Vomit, and that, balanced with the detail...
...lawsuit does not call for any specific damages, although it does state that Gould earned $300,000 a year from speaking engagements and that “a seven figure income was his norm.” The suit also states that Gould was negotiating a two million dollar book contract before his death...
During his time at Harvard, Gould developed an evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which suggests that the process of evolution is broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change and is not slow and steady as once thought...