Word: harvey
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...idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times, was also going to be in the movie...
...actors ever get to test their "interpretation" of a role against the real thing? But then he realized that the Pekar he was playing was "actually a character based on a character he had made of himself." Put simply, Giamatti didn't have to go looking for the real Harvey. It helped too that Pekar "seemed like he couldn't have cared less that they were making a movie about his life. It was like he came by for the free doughnuts and coffee," says Giamatti...
Noting the more liberal bent of Harvard students compared to the rest of the nation, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 described the campus as a “hothouse where students come together to learn by osmosis and by reinforcement...
During a brief discussion period at the end of the meeting, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 said he felt the speakers hadn’t given the Faculty much of an idea of where the inquiry was headed...
...comic writing, The New Yorker had the edge with (to choose four names spanning seven decades) S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Bruce McCall and Steve Martin. But I had a fondness for Playboy?s comedy stars - Jean Shepherd, Harvey Kurtzman, Jules Feiffer, Lenny Bruce, Arnold Roth, Shel Silverstein - in part because I?d followed and loved their earlier work from, respectively, WOR radio, Mad, the Village Voice, Fantasy LPs, Humbug and Look. They were the guys I?d have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece...