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When celebrated poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who was a professor at Harvard, donated land to the University in 1870, he mandated that the view from his house on Mount Auburn Street across the river to Allston be unobstructed...
...trudges through the woods, swats imagined flies, collapses against doors. One exasperated woman asks him, "Do you say, 'I'm sorry that I'm a rock-and-roll cliche'?" Van Sant and Pitt aren't sorry. They embrace the standard version of the pop star as lost boy, doomed poet; Blake is a rock Rimbaud. At the end he dies (as he is obliged to do) and ascends the wall of his room into rock-and-roll heaven - which makes Last Days something like the 43rd ghost movie in Cannes' first few days...
...Maybe this year's Zeitgeist movie will be another Van Sant crypto-history, Last Days, with Michael Pitt as a doomed rock star in the mold of Kurt Cobain. A few days ago we heard an unsolicited rave on the film from Christopher Doyle, the Australian cinematographer and poet, who thinks Van Sant is one of the few directors today pushing toward a cinema of tomorrow. That recommendation would be enough to have us queueing for the film, if it weren't our job to see it and a hundred other "unmissables...
Other highlights of the weekend included the presentation of the Harvard Arts Medal to poet Maxine Kumin ’46, a 50th anniversary celebration on Saturday night for the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra, and Friday night’s presentation of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum...
...Harvard Cambridge Fellowship and intends to study at Cambridge University in England next fall. There he hopes to earn a master’s degree in philosophy through a program that synthesizes philosophy and literature, with which he will then pursue a career as a professor and poet. The only thing that might alter his path is his love of the circus, where he used to be a tightrope walker...