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...like, ‘I’m going home for a couple of days,’” her roommate, Cameron E. Niven ’13, said. “When I asked her, she just said it was for an event...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Freshman Sits Alongside First Lady During State of the Union Address | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...display it as if it were worthy of a Muscle & Fitness cover is to tell us that they are as unself-conscious as they are self-unaware. Ferrell might be the fellow who ran naked across the stage at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, inspiring this ad lib by David Niven: "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell's Glory | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

...when the cops came--which the director says happened at least 50 times--Baron Cohen never dropped character. It's an impressive, perhaps insane, performance: Johnny Knoxville with a sense of humor, Andy Kaufman with a desire to please, Peter Sellers set loose on the public instead of David Niven. "It's like Marlon Brando's performance in On the Waterfront," says Charles. "Before that, everything was stylized, the John Barrymore school. After that, you couldn't act in the old style anymore. I believe that Sacha's performance does the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Make Funny Joke On Idiot Americans! High-Five! | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow-Business Legend | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking renovation and added a heated indoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow-Business Legend | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

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