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When one day in the fall of 1977, Mike L. Reiss ’81, Al E. Jean ’81, and some friends got bored stuffing envelopes for the Graduate School of Education, they started writing jokes on the letters before sealing them. They expected their antics would go unnoticed, but administrators discovered a batch of vandalized mail, and summoned Jean, Reiss, and company before the Administrative Board. The threat of suspension loomed, but they ultimately escaped unpunished...
...when hemade The 400 Blows--an instant astonishment that set the French New Wave in motion--Franois Truffaut had no idea of following his little hero, a 14-year-old played by Jean-Pierre Laud, through 20 more years of seriocomic escapades. But the end of that film, a freeze-frame of Antoine on a beach, left Truffaut and his audiences asking, What next? The callow charisma of young Laud also begged to be used again. What followed was a lovely short film (Antoine and Colette) and three features (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love...
...they appear in stories from 3,000 media sources--so the value of Brad Pitt spiked on news of his daughter's birth. But if you can't make real money, what's the point? "Media consumers don't give much thought to the news they receive," says creator Jean Agersberg, a Swedish economics student. The 10,000-plus members who have joined since Trendio was launched last month must be thinking harder now; the savviest investors' portfolios are worth about $2.5 million. Looking for a sure thing? Agersberg says he's bullish on words related to war and natural...
When poet Jean Valentine ’56 was an undergraduate at Radcliffe, she says the campus was “a much more divided world.”At the time, she recalls, women were not allowed into Lamont Library, which houses poetry recordings on the fifth floor.It wasn’t until Valentine returned to Cambridge in the fall of 1967 as a Radcliffe Fellow that she was able to listen to the recordings that she had longed to hear as a student. “I think it was a conservative world that had been there...
Piven isn't known for pausing. He is known around Los Angeles for doing everything else: dancing at a club, filling in on drums for Wyclef Jean, jogging past the struggling hikers at Runyon Canyon, firing agents or asking another hot woman out on a date--sometimes for the second or third time, even if he didn't remember asking before. As a performer he's more frenetic, having made a career of playing supercharged supporting characters as if he were Al Pacino on a leash. His talent is being big and real simultaneously. Piven's brilliant, nuanced take...