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...every choice made by Friedkin for “The French Connection” was either motivated by intuition or forced by circumstance. Hackman was only considered after a number of other actors were unavailable or turned the role down—among them, Jackie Gleason. Friedkin chose cinematographer Owen Roizman—who received an Oscar nomination for the film—without ever having seen a frame of film he had shot. “As a filmmaker, the one thing I did pick up somehow was to trust my instincts,” he said.These hunches pointed...
...read it],” Grzecki read aloud. The audience laughed along as Grzecki read the book’s surreal second chapter, which featured the Keezer Cat—who offers to buy Alice’s skin— and a mustachioed Humpty Dumpty. John B. Owen ’10, another Lampoon officer, then took over and read what he claimed was a historical document he found at Widener Library. The work was called “A Guide for the Freshman of this College” and featured rules for proper freshman behavior. It also appeared...
...latter would be Louis Salinger (Owen), an Interpol detective, ex-Scotland Yard, who at the start of the film is monitoring a clandestine meeting between one of his agents, Schumer (Ian Burfield), and a potential IBBC informant, whom the assignation has made very nervous. "You need to relax," the agent tells the informant, who replies, "I relax better tense." Adrenaline levels hardly matter to these two. In short order, they'll be killed: one in a "freak road accident" and the other, the Interpol agent, crumpling dead on the street. Salinger gets to see that in person...
...challenge for The International - for any thriller that's waist-deep in cynicism - is to create a goal the hero can achieve, whether or not that makes any difference. In the movie world, Clive Owen can track, find and eliminate the bad guy. In the real world, a banker like Skarssen is just one bad guy; and a million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap...
...slated to co-teach a junior seminar this spring, left to head the President’s National Economic Council. Professor David M. Cutler ’87 departed to work with Obama on health care policy, and Professor Jeremy C. Stein joined Summers at the NEC. Visiting Professor Owen A. Lamont and Professor Raj Chetty have replaced Stein and Cutler, respectively, but department members said they are still anxious about the hiring slowdown. “If economics is going to remain as popular as it has been for the last 20 years, we need to have more faculty...