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...Sinatra was filming Von Ryan's Express in Cortina and Calalzo in 1962, he hazed hotel staff with demands such as 200 fresh eggs served on a silver tray. (An egg fight ensued, and the wallpaper was ruined.) The hotel was also the setting for The Pink Panther~ with Peter Sellers and David Niven in 1963. But the rot gradually set in: wealthy patrons invested in their own chalets, and the Cristallo's owners sold it to a hotel chain, which closed it down in 1978. Before the Gualandis reopened the Cristallo for business, they commissioned a painstaking renovation...
...video for “Crooked Teeth” despite this critical setback, says a lot about the quality of the video. Director Ace Norton has accomplished something here: his combination of claymation and stop-motion video, a quirky homage to Steven Johnson’s video for Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer,” represents yet another good directorial gamble by the boys of Death Cab for Cutie. Well-known for selecting unheard-of directors, Ben Gibbard and company have struck gold with Norton, who manages to channel Nick Park (“Wallace...
Valedictorians, All-American athletes, the occasional best-selling author...Harvard’s freshman class demographics are downright intimidating. Yet only one special frosh can boast having his own reality TV show, self-produced music videos, wedding filming service, and popstar-like fame on campus. Peter C. Shields Jr.’s ’09 latest music video, “Aphroditi,” which he produced, directed, and starred in, features the crooner in a number of suggestive scenes singing Greek and English lyrics that he penned himself. In the video, the often bare-chested...
...such as the end of the world.” But in February 1978, a severe snowstorm forced University officials to close Harvard for three days. It is the only known closure due to snow in the University’s memory, according to Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, who teaches Religion 1513, “History of Harvard and its Presidents”. Even this closure occurred only after the Massachusetts governor declared a state of emergency, brought in the national guard, and restricted any unnecessary travel. After the blizzard hit, many people asked then...
...Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals and an expert on Harvard’s history, said Summers’ firing, if it happened, would be a “very hush-hush sort of thing...