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Actually, as Tune would probably be the first to acknowledge, it was a close race between him and his good friend and mentor Michael Bennett, who directed Dreamgirls. In a bad, in fact rotten, year for musicals, both demonstrated what an energetic and imaginative director can do with mediocre material. Dreamgirls, which opened last December, was an early hit, and "Nine," which came in at the last minute (five hours before the nomination cutoff), was a late one. But the most recent entry is the one the voters remember best. "Tommy was faced with the decision of whether to have...
...reputedly literary). Probably, it is this stress on the congeniality of that yellow building that prejudiced me against Lant's book. Virtually all of my predecessors as President of The Crimson were asked to join the Signet, and I hoped to emulate the example of one of my favorite mentor. Francis J Connolly '79, who answered the invitation in the words of Groucho Mars. "Any club that would have me as a member I wouldn't want to join." Alas, the powers that be at the Dunster St. fortress may have divined my intention, or (more likely) deemed me insufficiently...
...column by their mentor and unofficial adviser Dartmouth English professor Jeffrey Hart, entitled "Black is Boring...
...part of the Universal City tour. The crew was wavering daily between seasickness and shell shock. "It was almost Mutiny on the Bounty," Spielberg recalls, gleefully mixing his analogies, "with me tied to Moby Dick." But audiences responded to the film with the same question that Steven's mentor, Sid Sheinberg, asked when he first saw it: "Isn't there any more?" For Universal there was: Jaws set a new record for film grosses. And Close Encounters solidified Spielberg's reputation for touching minds and pocketbooks with equal acuity...
...duel, claiming that he could outdo McNulty by one The captain managed 14 pull ups, but true to his word, McCurdy did 15 Humiliated in defeat, McNulty trained for an entire week, and in a rematch he upped his total by five, but once again the team's mentor beat him by one Still determined to beat his cocky coach. McNulty tried again and did 29, more than doubling his first effort. Of course, McCurdy...