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...When a hotshot young professor of biology named Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and his mousy wife Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10) move into town, Martha invites them over for some drinks. What begins as an awkward gathering explodes into a game of deceit, violence, and debauchery as Martha and George begin to unveil the dark secrets of their marriage...
...George Eggers and Justin Grinstead competed for the men on Friday, finishing 32nd and 38th, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles.UMASS 8-WAY MEETHarvard’s men racked up points in the field events on the way to finishing fourth at UMass on Saturday.Junior Alex Obrecht and freshman Jack Brady took the top two spots in the shot put, with Obrecht throwing 15.58 meters and Brady coming in at 14.65 meters.Brady also finished second in the discus with a 45.35-meter heave, and Obrecht was fourth in the same event after a 44.62-meter toss.Sophomore Neville Irani was second...
...when Jack Valenti was named the head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the studio system was largely intact. Industry pioneers like Jack Warner and Darryl Zanuck were still running the companies they had founded. Old lions like Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Charlie Chaplin continued to make pictures. Jerry Lewis, Doris Day and Elvis were starring in their two anodyne movies a year. Virtually all income came from box office receipts and showings on broadcast TV stations. There were no home computers, cable networks, videocassettes or DVDs. No four-letter word had been spoken...
...know people who hated Jack Valenti, or rather hated the ratings system he created and sustained. Kirby Dick's documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated makes a good case for the prejudice the MPAA showed in favor of major-studio product and against the more adventurous indies. Francis Coppola once said that all of modern cinema, from art films to blockbusters, uses only about 5% of the medium's potential artistic vocabulary. We may need another revolution - not of content but of the means of distribution - to allow filmmakers to explore the other...
...Jack surely loved those "strangler" metaphors. But he retired, three years ago, with his own neck untouched. He came to Hollywood an unknown quantity and left this world its most legendary hypester. Veni, vidi, Valenti...