Word: oldman
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...under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses of the Battle of Britain, sentiment was no longer divided, according to Morton and Phyllis Keller’s book “Making Harvard Modern.” Learned Hand Professor of Law Emeritus Oliver Oldman ’42 remembers that, by his senior year, campus sentiment was unified. “By and large, the isolationist view made no sense,” he said.The debate was rendered moot after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor Saturday...
...second session replacing the late Richard Harris as Hogwarts principal Dumbledore, Michael Gambon has a ponderous, aristocratic humanism. Gary Oldman?s Sirius, the human-canine from the third film, has a bright cameo as a face in the fireplace. The movie strikes black gold with Alistair ?Mad-Eye? Moody, Hogwarts? new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Played by Brendan Gleeson with a swagger and spume not seen since Robert Newton?s Long John Silver (another charming dastard), Mad-Eye has a globular left orb that stares skeptically, maniacally, at all it surveys. He seems both amiable and deranged...
...adult filmgoers, the most fun thing about a Harry Potter movie is seeing all those great classically trained British actors--Maggie Smith, Gary Oldman, Emma Thompson--hamming it up mercilessly. The installment arriving this November, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, brings us more: Miranda Richardson as reporter Rita Skeeter and Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort. It also brings us something we haven't had before on a Harry Potter film: an English director...
...Oliver Oldman ’42, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Emeritus...
...supporting cast is still a bit too imposing for the material. If you could assemble some of Britain's most noted actors--Thewlis, Oldman, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Julie Christie, Emma Thompson, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters--well, it probably wouldn't be for a kid-movie franchise. But these master thespians aren't slumming; they're vacationing. They all throw themselves into the serious fun of a grand game...