Word: metropolitane
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Whit Stillman '73 is best known for his small masterpiece documenting the debutante scene of New York, "Metropolitan." Unfortunately his newest, and next film, "Barcelona" may tarnish this reputation. But rightly...
Stillman cast these two actors directly after finishing "Metropolitan" and their characters do not seem to have progressed much since then. Nichols still plays the over-earnest philosopher and Eigeman continues to play the smart-alecky underling. It's as if Stillman moved the two of them from their New York high rises to the streets of Barcelona and told them to make the best of the locals...
...think Stillman should have stayed with a narrow scope like he did in "Metropolitan." In "Barcelona" he spreads over too many incongruous issues and never resolves them. In the end, you walk away not knowing, and really not caring what happened in the film...
...highest-paid performer in the world during his heyday from 1903 to his death in 1921. Beginning in 1914, when the average weekly salary in the U.S. was about $12, Caruso was paid at least $2,500 (almost $37,000 in today's dollars) for each appearance at the Metropolitan Opera; today the Met's top fee is only $12,000. In Central and South America, where he was a god, Caruso received as much as $15,000 for a single engagement, payable in gold. His appearances in two silent movies in 1918, My Cousin and A Splendid Romance, brought...
Monday night, Gov. William F. Weld '66 ordered the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) to vote to allow 18-wheeler truck traffic on Memorial Drive, clearing the way for the development of a Super Stop and Shop there at the site of the old store, which was closed down...