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...Vasiliauskas said she wants to be an academic, in part because the lifestyle is compatible with that of a poet. “You’re always learning and you have a lot of unstructured time,” she said. She won the $1,000 Joan Gray Untermeyer Poetry Prize last year and her poetry has been published in The Gamut and Persephone, two Harvard magazines. Vasiliauskas is one of the editors-in-chief of The Gamut, poetry editor of Persephone, a Crimson photography editor, and one of the head tutors at the Writing Center...
...Help Joan Rivers interview wedding guests as they walk the red carpet B) Have her couches cleaned and resprung for their return C) Send the couple a gift anyway D) Buy all 500 or so guests a copy of Scientology guru L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics...
...DIED. Jack Palance, 87, hulking Hollywood iconoclast who won a best-supporting-actor Oscar for playing Curly, the hilariously creepy dude-ranch stud in City Slickers; in Montecito, California. The former heavyweight boxer shot to fame playing eerily calm, menacing heavies in films like Sudden Fear (Joan Crawford's deranged stalker) and Shane (a bullying gunslinger) in the 1950s. But his most memorable performance was at the 1992 Oscars. Accepting his award, Palance started to attempt a speech, then dropped to the floor, displaying his virility with a series of one-handed push-ups. Later asked what happened, he replied...
...PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, Carl Theodor Dreyer...
...package is particularly rich with extras. In addition to footage from the 1941 Academy Award ceremony, where Rebecca picked up Oscars for Best Picture and Cinematography, the disc's extras include three one-hour radio adaptations, among them one by Orson Welles, and footage of the screen tests for Joan Fontaine, who won the starring role of the second Mrs. de Winter, opposite Laurence Olivier, as well as for also-rans Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young and Olivier's then-wife Vivien Leigh...