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...think it was probably the most amazing concert of its kind at Harvard," said actor John Lithgow '67 in a phone interview Saturday. Lithgow, a member of Harvard's Board of Overseers, introduced the event...
Sponsored by the Harvard Board of Overseers' Committee on the Arts, the festival was proposed by Lithgow, the committee's chair, who said he was inspired by the emphasis on the arts at Rudenstine's inauguration...
While many students may know John Lithgow '67 from his numerous film and stage roles- including his Academy Award- nominated performance in the "The World According to GArp" and "Terms of Endearment" and his Tony- winning performance in M. Butterfly- most are probably unaware that he is on the Board of Overseers of HArvard. Lithgow has always maintained a strong interest in the well being of his alma mater, particularly of its arts community; and he is the chief organizer of ArtsFirst, a weekend- long and campus- wide celebration of HArvard's vibrant creative community that will take place from...
...Pedro (Colin Stokes) and his comrade-in-arms, Claudio (Mark Fish), inject a sinister tough into their otherwise straight-forward characters, rather complacently consigning a poor maiden to eternal shame. Don Pedro's brother, Don John (Ian Lithgow), on the other hand, is interpreted as a buffoon. He is a Peter Ustinov-style villain, bumbling and ineffectual. The comic actors take the Shakespearean "rude mechanical" to the limit. Dogberry and Verges (Tom Giordano) revel in the slapstick. So, too, do Borachio and Conrade--at times at the expense of the darker, more thoughtful side of the play...
Viewers' familiarity with the gore genre has never bothered Brian De Palma. He has been considered a Hitchcock groupie for so long that, by now, the slur seems like a badge. The plot of Raising Cain -- about a child psychologist (John Lithgow) still under the spell of his mad-scientist father and an evil twin named Cain -- swipes from Psycho and Michael Powell's sicko classic Peeping Tom. What's fun here is that De Palma has rung cunning changes on Hitchcockian twists. What if the car that Norman Bates watched sink into the swamp had a woman inside, clawing...