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...auditioned because she liked the show from previous years, and says she isn’t doing anything drastic to prepare for the show. Her words of advice for the audience: “the drunker you are, the better we look.” Vida C. Harvey ‘04, a member of Expressions as well an Eleganza model, says that her practice for the dance show, held last weekend, did more than enough to keep her in shape for the event, while Erika M. Jungblut ’02, is really working on practicing her walk. Many...
Searching and at times bleak and darkly comic, Assassins is framed as a series of pseudo-historical vignettes depicting presidential assassinations and attempts, beginning with assassination “pioneer” John Wilkes Booth and ending with Lee Harvey Oswald’s shot from the book depository. Time and space are fluid. Garfield assassin Charles Guiteau gives a shooting lesson to would-be Ford assassin Sara Jane Moore, and Booth suggests to Guiseppe Zangara that he might relieve his stomach pains by shooting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Allowing the assassins throughout history to meet each other...
...Samuel H. Perwin ’04 in two roles. As the Balladeer, he sings simplistic folk-style description and commentary on the first three completed assassinations. After the Balladeer is driven from the stage by a horde of bitter assassins, Perwin reappears in the final scenes as Lee Harvey Oswald...
While Bob has remained focused on the Dimension label, which releases the company's more commercial films, Harvey has gone astray. He admits to being distracted, starting in 1999, when he was sidelined with a serious bacterial infection. He became focused on politics, campaigning for Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. But it was Talk magazine that became his white whale. A joint venture between Miramax and Hearst, the talked-about but uncompelling monthly died after less than three years. One Miramax executive says the company lost $27 million. Another says, "Talk was a constant distraction. Harvey wanted it to succeed...
...Harvey--as you might imagine--will not admit defeat. Business, he notes, has been good in spite of all the colorful problems. Cost overruns on Gangs of New York have been softened by sales to foreign distributors, which, according to Harvey, should limit his company's investment to less than $30 million. The job cutbacks, he points out, have simply brought Miramax back to October 2001 levels. "We just didn't need to have all that staff around," he says. According to Disney CEO Michael Eisner, the Weinsteins still enjoy strong support from their parent company. "They may get under...