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Since the end of his first year at the College, Cadiff, a native of Newton, has produced and directed at Harvard, on Broadway and in Hollywood...
...about those scraps of paper often. Now that we are all inserting ourselves into proper grown-up roles—buying toilet paper, toiling at Goldman, travelling the world, haggling over leases—our dork propensities may come in handy. No matter how famous my roommate becomes in Hollywood, or to what auspicious levels my Crimson associates reach in the hierarchy of the Wall Street Journal, the geekiness instilled in us by fair Harvard will shine with the light of veritas. When I first see my blockmate, L. Zoe Tananbaum ’02, in the pages of Sunday...
After his failed Hollywood experiences, Ballmer finally enrolled at SBS in the fall of 1979 and immediately began to excel to the same degree he had at college...
...irony behind these Third World films is that their makers often were schooled in the U.S. or Europe. Mehrjui is a graduate of UCLA, a few miles from Hollywood. Suleiman went to New York University, a mile up from Wall Street. The Thai film Blissfully Yours was made by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Blissfully was named best film in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, in part because it plays by the minimalist rules of international cinema: a static camera, forlorn characters, lots of driving and a little sex for spice. See what...
...Plumbing the Korean soul wasn't an early ambition. Im was forced to drop out of middle school by his father's death and found work as a production assistant in Seoul. Five years later, he made his first feature. His aspiration was to make Hollywood-style action flicks. But in poor South Korea in the 1960s, Im had to settle with small, low-budget historical tales. He concedes that as an artist, those restrictions turned out to be fortuitous. "You can only make good movies if you film what you know," he says. "Every one of my bones...