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...American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although the first movie ends with a chatty preview of the plot in the sequels...
...were student-run. “People had the chance to fail,” says Senelick, who directed his own share of productions. From this ad hoc, self-driven environment came the likes of John A. Lithgow ’67, Stockard Channing ’65, and Peter M. Sellars ’80.While the environment was conducive to independence, students had nowhere to turn to learn the practical theater arts in an academic setting. This dilemma was meant to be resolved in 1978 with the founding of the A.R.T. by Brustein, who had also founded the Yale...
...Peter J. Gomes is afraid: he is afraid that the gospel of Jesus, the radical and “scandalous” good news he brought, has been lost in the rest of the Bible. The effort to reclaim the message constitutes the subject of the latest book by Gomes, a religion professor and the minister of Memorial Church. “It is no accident that although Jesus came preaching a disturbing and redistributive gospel, we do not preach what Jesus preached,” he writes. “Instead, we preach Jesus...
What most outsiders want to know, though, is how in heck these parents keep straight who's got Taekwondo class and who needs new sneakers and who's desperate for some quality time alone with Mom or Dad. For Laura Bennett, 44, and Peter Shelton, 62, raising five young boys in Manhattan requires a daily battle plan. (Bennett also has a daughter, 19, from a previous marriage, who does not live with them.) A babysitter arrives early at the family's loft-style apartment to help manage the morning scrum. Then Shelton, an architect, and Bennett, a clothing designer whose...
...faced a much less experienced Jumbo team that has not beaten Harvard in recent memory. “We pretty much knew that Tufts is fairly weak, it’s one of those teams we like to fence every year to support them,” Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “It gives me a chance to play some of the walk-ons, which is very important to me,” he added. Yet the competition provided a different sort of challenge. In a typical David and Goliath matchup it’s clear what...