Word: lemmons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...felt in the news, in the number of uniforms on campus and by the Navy men marching to class at ungodly early hours singing "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie" in cadence. I once accused Jack Lemmon '47, who was in a Navy program, of disturbing my slumbers, but he has denied this. And although uncertainties most of us would face at 18-plus were with us all the time, there were still pleasures to be explored. There were wonderful stage productions at the Brattle Theatre, of which Engene O'Neill's "the Hairy Ape" still rings vivid in memory...
...Pudding is the third oldest running theater organization in the world, and the most storied artistic tradition at Harvard, with alums including Jack Lemmon '47 and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld...
...added benefit, members get the chance to meet--and maybe even do a couple of shots with--world famous movie stars during the Man and Woman of the year festivities. This year, The Pudding will also host a charity event for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation featuring Jack Lemmon...
Branagh sets the play in a pre-World-War-I era, apparently for no reason other than novelty. As all Hamlet-o-philes know, the story begins with the sighting of King Hamlet's ghost by Horatio (Nicholas Ferrell), Marcellus (Jack Lemmon '47) and Barnardo (Ian McElhinney). Here Bismarck-style hats poised atop the head of an improbably cast Marcellus steal a scene intended to prepare the audience for the play's mood of ranting and revenge. But to the audience's consternation, the period so over-emphasized early on plays a minor or non-existent role later...
...Branagh doesn?t win an Oscar for his four-hour, uncut ?Hamlet,? " says TIME's Richard Corliss, "he should at least cop a Chutzpah Award." Here's the most eclectic cast in movie history -- Julie Christie, Billy Crystal, Gerard Depardieu, John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt...