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...Ball, he explored themes of racism, deceit and capital punishment; in short, he depicted reality at its darkest. Finding Neverland couldn’t be more different. Johnny Depp plays James “J.M.” Barrie, in the process of writing his masterwork Peter Pan. Like most of Depp’s characters, Barrie is more than a little strange. He lives in an odd mix of the real world—London in 1904—and his own imagination, a combination that Forster masterfully depicts by intercutting shots of Barrie’s London...
...domineering mother—all deliver strong performances, adding a level of sophisticated emotion, grounding the film in a paradoxically fantastical reality. Occasionally, the tone can be a little too sweet and sentimental: this is not a movie for the hard of heart. However, like Peter Pan says, if you really believe, at times the movie feels like it’s flying...
They’re interested now, certainly. Those scouts from the 49ers, the Giants and the Vikings aren’t trekking out to Cambridge for the pleasant weather. But it’s too early to see how it will all pan out—if Fitzpatrick will be a Jay Fiedler or a Gavin Hoffman...
...members of the Pan-African Liberation Movement stage a takeover of Mass. Hall in protest of Harvard’s holdings in Gulf Oil, which supports the military regime in Angola. The takeover galvanizes the South African divestment campaign. In 1977, 2000 students block the entrance to University Hall in protest; in 1986, 200 divestment activists erect a shanty town and a symbolic ivory tower in the yard. The ACSR petitions for divestment from South Africa regularly between...
When Cuban parents launched Operation Pedro Pan in 1960, all they were trying to do was get their children safely out of Fidel Castro's Cuba and into the U.S. Nobody knew then that one of those children would go on to become the first Cuban American elected to the U.S. Senate. With his victory in Florida last week, Mel Martinez, 58, earned that distinction, picking off a seat that had been held by retiring Democrat Bob Graham. But the feel-good story follows a feel-bad campaign, and even before he takes office, Martinez may have some fences...