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...said that inside every comedian is the urge to play Hamlet. (Hey, Mel Gibson did it.) Well, inside Judd Apatow, he wishes, is a secret Jim Brooks. James L. Brooks is the sitcom titan (Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi, The Simpsons) who forged an Oscar-winning film career as the writer-director of comedy-dramas about attractive neurotics. The needy souls from Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, I'll Do Anything and As Good As It Gets were all variously self-aware and self-absorbed, and they struck viewers not as comic constructs but as real, flawed people...
First-time visitors to this hamlet on the Nam Song River can be forgiven for feeling a little lost. With shirtless young backpackers drinking beer and suntanning, it looks more like an Ibizan beach town than a Laotian village. But no, you didn't take a wrong turn at the Thai border. This is Vang Vieng - a farm town turned full-moon party, smack in the middle of a communist state. Once a resting place for opium-addled sojourners on sweet, slow tours of the East, Vang Vieng is now a haven of a different sort. It has become...
...begun to take time to glance over the house list and to read over emails of upcoming IOP events, and despite assignments, I’ve rescheduled my day in order to go see General Petreaus speak on Iraq, to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to enjoy a live bluegrass band, and to take advantage of senior thesis talks and half-price student tickets to Don Giovanni in Boston...
...HamletLeverett Old Library7:30 p.m.‘Tis Pity She’s a WhoreLoeb Drama Center Experimental Theatre8 p.m.The Harvard Crimson Dance Team in ConcertHarvard Dance Center8 p.m.Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” Sanders Theatre8 p.m.The Tragedy of Hamlet: The Prince of DenmarkNew College Theatre 8 p.m.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumCabot House Junior Common Room 8 p.m.The Space BetweenLoeb Drama Center Main Stage 8 p.m.The BachelorHarvard Dance Center 8 p.m.Dunster Chamber Players Spring ConcertDunster House8 p.m.Freshmen ShowcaseBolyston Hall8 p.m.Bajo la arena…El públicoAdams House...
...HRDC’s production “The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark,” the cast and crew dare to tamper with the sacred texts of Shakespeare. “Hamlet is this worshipped thing. A lot of Shakespeare’s works are. It’s really quite sad, I think,” says director Jason R. Vartikar ’11. “The Tragedy of Hamlet”—not to be confused with the more traditional version being staged this weekend in Leverett House?...