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Naddaff and her husband Leigh, a business school professor, took over as Master and comaster in February from Jeff and Nancy Williamson, and it remains to be seen how the new masters will influence the direction of the life of the house...
According to University Attorney Robert R. Donia, Harvard had reason to believe the restriction would jeff reversed by the time of the conferener...
...Vanishing -- directed in both versions by George Sluizer -- misplaces its leading lady early. She disappears at a highway rest stop, leaving her lover Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) angry, then for years obsessed. He wants to know what happened. We already do. At least, we know whodunit. Barney (Jeff Bridges), a nerdy schoolteacher with the improbable accent of a Swedish Peter Lorre, has abducted her and taken her to his lakeside cottage. When Barney reveals himself, Jeff must decide whether his need to know the ending, even a tragic one, to his story -- and they all died horribly ever after -- is worth...
...provocative premise, but it wants some legerdemain and a third act. Enter screenwriter Todd Graff (Used People). He takes the original's perplexing flashback structure, flattens it out and fattens it up, mostly by creating a new character, a waitress (Nancy Travis) who falls in love with Jeff. Graff changes the theme: now knowledge is just a cue for righteous revenge. The Dutch movie had no gun; in a Hollywood thriller there must be a gun, and it will go off. The original's ending was misanthropic, claustrophobic -- a fellow in a tight spot with no way out but death...
...Jeff Sagansky '74, president of CBS Entertainment Division, also said that the power to use television has significant limits because there are so few masters of the medium...