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There isn’t any shortage of intelligence in Hollywood; there’s just a shortage of talent. Harvard’s contribution to the summer scene has made that blindingly clear; we’ve spawned the presumably intelligent writers and/or directors of XXX, The Fast and the Furious, Wild Wild West, Terminator 3, Cats and Dogs, Bruce Almighty, Daddy Day Care, Blue Crush, Halloween: Resurrection and more. Hollywood needs to weed out all of its dead wood, be they Harvard-trained or not, and find writers who can make some kind of memorable contribution...
...suspect that this is largely due to the marginalization of the screenwriter in Hollywood. Once in a blue moon, a writer will become something of a household name, but this usually requires them to either simultaneously dabble in direction or actually write themselves into their screenplays. Granted, writers are not particularly a most glamorous, lovable bunch, but Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg did not achieve superstar status with their chiseled jawbones...
Anyhow, I must admit I am fairly pleased that the sequel craze has been toned down for this summer, and though I’m hardly looking forward to any of the epics Hollywood is attempting to ram down our throats this summer, I think we can all agree on one thing: the all-powerful hotness of Keira Knightley in a leather bondage outfit, sporting Celtic tattoos and one big-ass sword. Bring it on, Keira...
Maybe it was beginner’s luck. Fresh out of Harvard, having swooped headlong into the pit of motion picture dreams that is Los Angeles, Steve J. Sandvoss ’02 stood in front of a casting agent for his very first Hollywood audition—and got the part...
Sandvoss is no longer so unworldly, if he ever was so. The largely glowing reviews of his performance in Latter Days and the film’s several audience awards at gay and lesbian film festivals around the country have rapidly transformed him into a presence in young Hollywood. He’s shopping around a script and about to start shooting a bigger-budget film, about which he will only say that one of its executive producers recently won an Oscar...