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Starting in 1988, Allen served as a teaching fellow for various core and English literature courses. He also taught at the Milton Academy in Milton, Mass...
...really the most serious student of literature and the most engaging public speaker I've ever met," said Harvey. "He was fascinated by the process of teaching both at Milton Academy and Harvard. He wanted to make poetry live for the students...
...heart of his new movie, Mr. Saturday Night, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, quite an achievement for someone who didn't know what a key grip was seven years ago. Crystal set out to portray someone who embodied the idols of his youth -- Milton Berle, Jack E. Leonard, Alan King -- yet exuded the fear of failure that makes some comics do themselves in, onstage and personally, instead of waiting for life to do it to them...
Johnson and Wales doesn't have academic powerhouses like Joe Nye and Milton Friedman. Their professors aren't swooped down to Washington every four years to serve as advisers. Yet Richard Lewis, Dennis Miller, Penn and Teller and Jay Leno have all performed on their campus in the last three years. If I remember correctly, it was a major project for the Undergraduate Council to get Stephen Wright to perform here, and they failed miserably with Penn and Teller negotiations...
...George Milton (Gary Sinise) and Lennie Small (John Malkovich), protagonists of both the book and movie, became tragic heroes in my early adolescent eyes. This story of two Depression era migrant workers, with its sparse prose, illumines the intricacies of loneliness and companionship, desire and hope, greed and helplessness. It ranks among the great American classics...