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...outstanding warrants with no results, issued him a trespass warning, and led him off campus. Dec. 11: 2:26 a.m.—Officers were dispatched to the Standish Hall Junior Common Room on 966 Mill St. because of a report about an individual playing the piano too loudly. Upon arrival, the officers ordered the early-morning pianist to stop playing. Dec. 12: 7:45 a.m.—A HUPD officer assisted the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) in its search for a suspect who had reportedly just finished vandalizing a motor vehicle and then fled. The search was unsuccessful...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...Every time Schroeder rebuffs Lucy’s advances. Pause the film; discuss how she deserves her loneliness after pulling that football shit so many times with Charlie. Two shots if an image of Schroeder and Lucy hooking up crosses your mind. 4. Every time Schroeder’s piano produces the sound of some absent instrument. Four shots if it sounds like a full jazz quartet. 5. Every time someone makes fun of Pigpen’s appearance; ponder why they keep picking on the kid that can’t afford soap. 6. Whenever you feel Charles Schultz...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Screen Shots: A Charlie Brown Christmas | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...masterpiece That Nigger's Crazy--were best sellers and won five Grammys. He pioneered a new genre, the feature-length comedy concert, with his 1979 film Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. He was a hit in more traditional films too, winning an Oscar nomination for his nervy performance as Piano Man in the Billie Holiday biography Lady Sings the Blues, pairing with Gene Wilder in buddy comedies like Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, and showing his dramatic range as a doomed autoworker in Paul Schrader's Blue Collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: America's Most Beloved Comic Rebel | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...hours and then go to bed,” says Yuan. He transferred to Harvard the next year to start his freshman year anew, and quickly found exactly what he was looking for. Friends interviewed for this story defined him as much by his partying as his piano skills. At Harvard, Yuan was able to have more fun, but he did not give up piano. He practices between four and five hours a day, working with Professor of Music Robert Levin ’68, a pianist with an international reputation who has been his teacher and mentor...

Author: By Dina Guzovsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Johann Sebastian...Bank? The Best Pianist at Harvard | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

From zero to hero? Where did he get his talent? “I sort of followed [my sister, Jenny] through everything. She joined chorus, I joined chorus; she did musicals, I did musicals; she took piano lessons, I took piano lessons...

Author: By Silas P. Howland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Working His Magic—Onstage and Off | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

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