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...Best Director.” You see, I don’t consider the film’s Oscar triumphs unexpected because The Pianist was a bad movie—it wasn’t. Rather, the controversial nomination and recognition of the film’s director, Roman Polanski, gave me pause. As I read across the box, I remembered the way I felt on Oscar night: it’s too bad that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to honor such a unscrupulous and immoral...
...fair, I didn’t know all that much about Roman Polanski when he won his award. I knew he was recognized for edgy, “brutally honest” type films and I recalled some controversy surrounding his nomination. I was also surprised that an organization as self-conscious as the Academy would concede an award to such a questionable figure. But I did a bit of research on the Oscar winner and found that I should not be surprised at the Academy; I should be disgusted...
...length, the most basic evidence for why America probably won’t become a modern-day Roman Empire is the fact that, well, we’ve already had the chance and chosen to pass on it. Oh, sure, some point to our military bases around the world, and others use globalization as proof of informal U.S. imperialism. Yet Turkey has long hosted American troops, and it flatly denied our requests for basing and transit rights during the Iraqi campaign. If we really were an empire, then surely we would’ve used our established presence to force...
...Robed in rich yellow brick,” and crowned by a smokestack that Barr compared to an Italian basilica, the Necco factory united the three ideals coined by the earliest Roman architect: Venustas, architectural beauty; Firmitas, “exquisite structural virtuosity;” and Utilitas—usefulness—the trait that made the building “genuinely modern...
...every turn by his well-meaning but dimwitted German servant who manages to keep the “lovebirds” together, thus innocently making a mess of his employer’s love life. “The Castrata” plunges the conceited composer Pizzicato into the Roman world of intriguing cardinals Di Gorgonzola and Manicotti, with a handsome prince and a cross-dressing, would-be castrato thrown in, to thoroughly complicate matters both musical and romantic. Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27. 8 p.m. Tickets $5, $4 students, $4 seniors, $3 Adams House residents, available through...