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Last year’s recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award and current Harvard post-doctoral fellow Jonathan Farley ’91, has recently added one more credit to his resume: Hollywood consultant. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
...after Spielberg's attorney--and have long since fallen apart. Unlike the film's fictionalized Amity Island, Martha's Vineyard has never been plagued by unprovoked shark attacks, although a great white was spotted off the coast of a nearby island last year. "We're celebrating the arrival of Hollywood, not any predators," said a rep from the local Chamber of Commerce who spoke without irony. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...high on a wave that turned its films into festival staples. Von Trier and Vinterberg may have moved on to bigger, brighter things, but the aesthetic they devised and inspired has gone mainstream, turning up in everything from Danish television shows to bare-bones thrillers like Open Water. As Hollywood players scramble to blow our minds (and blow up their budgets), the dictates of Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just about thrills, spills and special effects - it's about telling a story and telling it well. "We thought it would be fun to forbid everything we normally...
Project Greenlight (Bravo, Thursdays, 10 P.M. E.T.) The moral of this Hollywood reality show, formerly on HBO, is that we get the movies we deserve. This year's victim--er, winner--John Gulager, is picked to shoot a horror flick by Dimension Films, only to be immediately undermined by paranoid executives. We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office...
Smith has managed to get to the pinnacle of actors through his status as the most likable man in Hollywood. He is completely unobjectionable; the man every man would like to be friends with and every woman would like to date. This situation becomes troublesome when Smith tries to reenter the rap world; within a scene centered around boisterously celebrating African-American culture, it is not surprising that Smith has been characterized as overly deferential to white culture. One critic said Smith’s performance in “The Legend of Bagger Vance” consisted...