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Rose B. Styron, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center and a prominent human rights activist, held an informal conversation about her life experiences with an small audience in the Kirkland House Senior Common Room last night...
Holding had decided to take a gap year before coming to Harvard and discover if she was ready for the life of a starving artist. Cutting herself off from her parents financially, she moved to New York City. “I hoped to bridge the divide between high school ‘theater kid’ and professional actor, but the insight was disheartening,” Holding says with a chuckle. “Finding roles in plays, on TV, in commercials, and waitressing in between—it was a struggle...
...students in Germany, being invited to a secret meeting of Poland’s underground resistance movement with author Kurt Vonnegut, and attending the Amnesty International World Concert Tour with Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen. "It was the most fun I’ve done with anything in my life," Styron said...
...never fully convincing. There is something lurking behind the smile. The keen observer knows from the beginning, owing to the tortured duality of Green’s acting, that Miss G is no Jean Brodie—she lacks that famous character’s intelligence, refinement, and life-experience. The shallow allure that Green conveys is not to be mistaken as depthless acting—it is the indeed the very crux of her character and the lynchpin of the film entire...
...interested in. I’m really interested in plants, you know? I’m really interested in food, and its relation to taste literally. I’m interested in bad paintings. I love photographing paper. I like being outside. All of this stuff is actually my life...