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...comes from a superb ensemble cast, especially Christie, Michael Countryman as Jackson, Arnie Mazer as the loutish Swede Risberg and John A. O'Hern as the quietly sodden Fred McMullin. The roles could easily resemble the agglomeration familiar from war movies: a doomed innocent, a hot-tempered sidekick, a misfit willing to do anything to fit in. But they enact their stories so convincingly that one cannot help caring about what happened to these boys of summer some 67 summers...
...consider these plots. A wily misfit takes on the mind benders in an Oregon psychiatric hospital (Cuckoo's Nest). Hippies raise their voices, and a little hell, against the Viet Nam War (Hair, 1979). A black man is driven by righteousness to lead an armed revolt against white America (Ragtime, 1981). A great but graceless composer battles the musical establishment of Old Vienna (Amadeus). In Forman's American films an irascible individualist is forever butting his head against the walls of official power and getting bashed for his pains. These parables of dreams defeated hold echoes of tales from Forman...
...addict, Scott R. Panzer '88, who owns what he calls a "I rash-80," said that he outgrew the video games habit in eleventh grade. "Before I was a social misfit," he said. "As I started to have a better time sociality, I stopped using the computer...
...misfit and eccentric, Glenn Gould was one of the most provocative pianists of the century. In 1964, after an international concert career that had lasted only nine years, he abruptly retired from the stage to explore the potential of the recording studio. In more than 90 releases, ranging from two idiosyncratic versions of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations to his transcriptions of Wagner, Gould did just that. Flamboyant willfulness marked too much of his work, but at his best he had a penetrating, furiously original vision. Gould died of a stroke in 1982 at age 50, but he remains a challenging...
...love and money, an FBI misfit becomes a double agent...