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...founders Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and Cirina Hampton Catania to attract more filmmakers to Utah. Redford was its first board chairman. The inaugural event focused on retrospectives of classic American films, with a few awards given to new works. It was moderately successful, with long lines for screenings and a few high-profile panelists like actress Cicely Tyson, but the organizers were left in the red - prompting them to hold another festival the following year to break even. In 1980, reportedly at the suggestion of director Sydney Pollack, organizers moved the event to Park City on the assumption that...
...when Friday Night Lights was being made into a movie, director Pete Berg invited me to the Astrodome in Houston to watch the filming. It didn't take long to realize that the magic of moviemaking was no magic at all - repetitive and dull. I became bored, which is when I saw a small cluster of young men in wheelchairs on the sidelines...
This weekend, students returned to campus with bags in their hands instead of under their eyes after Harvard’s first five-week-long winter vacation. Now that the pilot J-term is over, it seems clear that the new schedule succeeded in offering students time to relax or travel that they otherwise might not have taken. Still, while we recognize the College’s current financial constraints, we believe that Harvard should present students with more J-term opportunities in the future, allowing the young program to grow in size, quality, and popularity...
...Community Conversations shows, clarification of the issues surrounding personal identity often involves debate and even some discomfort. But if an endeavor is worthwhile so long as it helps students better understand others’ identities, then the College needs to help students “become more aware of the diversity in society”—a society that is religiously as well as racially and economically diverse. The College should internalize its motto and realize that the examination of religious matters is an undeniable aspect of student life here at Harvard that deserves to be accommodated...
...reality, Obama (and, for that matter, the Clintons) has a long history of paying public homage to the leadership and political skills of Reagan, even while disagreeing with his policies...