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...Fuzz takes me back to the days of America's rampant Anglophilia - a three-decade stretch from Alec Guinness' Ealing comedies of the immediate postwar era through the rise of Peter Sellers, Beyond the Fringe and the Beatles (whom we saw as essentially a musical comedy team) and culminating in Monty Python's Flying Circus. A lot of American kids got a lot of their sense of humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films...
...yesterday for a late-night vigil at Memorial Church to remember the 32 victims of Monday’s mass shooting at Virginia Tech. The candle-lit service began on the South Porch of the historic building, followed by a service inside the sanctuary. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes spoke at the 10 p.m. service, which was supported by the Undergraduate Council (UC) and organized by the Memorial Church faculty. “No one wants to feel like they are alone in tragedies like these,” Gomes, who is also the Pusey minister...
Exhibit A is Transformers, the summer's most anticipated movie event that doesn't end in a number, in which the hero will be played by Peter Cullen, a Canadian voice actor familiar to the teensiest fraction of moviegoers. With Steven Spielberg producing and Michael Bay directing this $150 million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots...
That's one explanation for last month's jeremiad by Peter Bart, editor of the trade paper Variety, against movie reviewers. He couldn't understand why so many critics lambasted hits like 300, Wild Hogs and Norbit. "The situation underscores yet again the disconnect between the cinematic appetites of critics vs. those of the popcorn crowd," Bart wrote. "If the established media want to stay relevant, should their critics make a passing attempt to tune in to pop culture?" He suggested we take "a sabbatical until September," when Hollywood starts releasing artsy films in the pre-Oscar blitz...
Harvard's memorial service be will held today in Memorial Church at 10 p.m. The service will begin on the church's porch and then move inside. Reverend Peter J. Gomes will speak...