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...will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning and leading an HRO rehearsal. “[Collecting student feedback] was a very deliberate, thoughtful...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Director for HRO Appointed | 5/22/2009 | See Source »

...movie franchise got new life by winning the box-office weekend. The first Trek movie to boldly go without a colon in the title amassed $76.5 million in its first four days, including $4 million from Thursday night shows, according to early industry estimates. That should leave the Paramount executives beaming: they have a healthy new-old franchise. (See the 10 best Star Trek moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Star Trek Conquers the Universe | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...late '90s, the repertory cinemas of our New York youth, the oldies houses, had pretty much vanished. There were exceptions: one could see many artifacts of Hollywood's golden age on videocassette, the eight-track of its day. And the commercial-free American Movie Classics channel was still showing Paramount and Universal goodies from the '30s and '40s; it also staged annual Film Preservation Festivals of, say, silent and early-talkie John Ford pictures. (Then AMC changed its format, emphasized "newer" movies, and devoted so much time to advertising that it became known as Always More Commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...biggest complaint about TCM, however, is that it has virtually no competition. Fox Movie Channel also runs its library's films without commercial interruption, and we're grateful for all those gorgeous '40s musicals, but the catalog is severely limited. As for oldies from Paramount and Universal, they're almost impossible to find, except in bootleg editions. The rumor that surfaced last week about Time Warner possibly buying NBC Universal was cheered by FOOFs, because then those two invaluable archives would be under Feltenstein's loving aegis. If the rumor isn't true, couldn't the Paramount-Universal films stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Reasons to Love Turner Classic Movies | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...commend you for your cover story on frugality and for highlighting the paramount importance of saving for the future, which should be taught early on in school. People who adhere to the concept of penny saved, penny earned will be able to weather financial conditions of any kind. April Shin-Lee, ENCINITAS, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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