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...painful microbomb implanted in his brain?that explains a lot about the star?s shenanigans this past year. And at the end, his team jumps up and down in evocation of Cruise?s stunt on Oprah. Is celebrity a mask we love to see the star pull off, grinning at his own foibles? Ponder and deplore...
...frequently throughout the film). During one of the more intimate scenes, the camera slowly shifts back and forth between the faces of Harlan and Tobe until they seem to be perfectly and eerily melded together. Cinematographer Enrique Chediak expertly times the use of unfocused, shaky or jumping footage to pull the viewer into the interior world of the characters.However, in the less-useful interludes, the film spends an exorbitant amount of time studying the effects of movement, contrasting light and darkness, and other purely aesthetic criterion on the camera. These scenes communicate the emotional and metaphysical turmoil of the characters...
...Rubin ’03 published his wisdom under the headline “How to Get Play at Harvard College,” and I profited. “Be direct,” he wrote, and so I was. “Always be willing to pull the trigger,” he wrote, and so I was. “Start every sentence with, ‘My penis feels so...’” he wrote, and soon I was the most popular girl in school.Of course, my case is exceptional. Senior spring does...
...covered by non-restrictive licenses, allowing for reuse in future works by other artists. Maybe Viswanathan should look into this license for her next novel, to keep future generations of literary borrowers from running into the legal and publicity problems she now faces. Or just pull a Diddy and give Ms. McCafferty a fat stack of Benjamins.—Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...further parallels between Viswanathan’s book and two works by Salman Rushdie and Sophie Kinsella. Viswanathan said in a statement last week that the novel would be revised “to eliminate any inappropriate similarities.” Three days later, Little, Brown asked bookstores to pull “Opal Mehta” off their shelves, waiting until yesterday to announce that the book would not be returning.Random House, which published the novels by McCafferty and Kinsella, declined to comment on Little, Brown’s latest statement. “With Little, Brown having voluntarily...