Word: macdonald
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...feminist takeover of Harvard is imminent,” cries Heather MacDonald of the right-leaning Manhattan Institute. The conservative National Association of Scholars charges that Faust comes to the presidency “out of a career whose foremost characteristic has been its strong feminist bent,” while The Crimson’s own Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 has called Faust “a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse...
Admittedly, it’s not just her academic work that has elicited F-word attacks. At the Radcliffe Institute, MacDonald says, “Faust runs one of the most powerful incubators of feminist complaint…in the country.” But in fact, Faust has steered Radcliffe away from an exclusive focus on gender studies. The number of men in the institute’s Fellows program has increased more than six-fold since 2000, the year Faust arrived. And the program now includes natural scientists and engineers who are conducting cutting-edge research that...
...cinema interesting. Sometimes, the relationship turns parasitic and British talent gets sucked into the Hollywood machine, never to return home. But most of the time, there's give and take. The U.S. system gives some funding or a distribution deal, and, in return, it gets a good story. Kevin Macdonald's portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland was made with mostly British funding, giving him the freedom to make his movie his way. "If I tried to do The Last King of Scotland through the U.S. studio system, it would be a very different film...
...Last King of Scotland was distributed through a Hollywood studio, which gave it a bigger audience than any British studio could. The film now has one Oscar nomination for its star Forest Whitaker and five bafta nominations. As Macdonald knows, it's the Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone...
...their own, giving more British filmmakers the chance to win a bronze mask. For many, it's the next best thing to bringing home a little gold man. "It's important to have awards that show British filmmakers how much their films resonate with British audiences," says Macdonald. "To have them say, 'This film, from our perspective, feels great. We love this.' Personally, I think the baftas should become an even more proudly British event." But first, bring back the foam...