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Following stints as a teacher and a critic, Toback says he finally chose to get his life “back on track” at the age of 27 by writing a screenplay. The Gambler, a semi-autobiographical tale, was eventually made into a movie by director Karel Reisz in 1974. Following Reisz around the set, Toback absorbed filmmaking techniques, and by the end of production, he felt ready to direct his own film...
Brendan J. Reed ’03, a pitcher on the varsity baseball team, is an editor of The Crimson, the Advocate and the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...West and became a South Dakota homesteader. He lived among whites and, it is said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth of a Nation," Micheaux offered his novel to the Lincoln Motion Picture Company on the condition that he also direct. Lincoln declined, Micheaux bolted and began raising money for his film...
...contrast to Bronson, who is a resident of Eliot House and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, Di Capua and Bullock prefer to keep the details of their speeches under wraps...
...Georgian army. An advance unit of U.S. Green Berets arrived in Georgia last week. The Georgians will mount a "full-scale attempt to solve the Abkhaz problem by force before the onset of autumn," says General Vladimir Arshba, Abkhazia's chief of general staff. They are engaged in "semi-covert mobilization" and menacing exercises, he says, and by the summer the first batch of Georgian troops should have finished U.S. training. If there is an attack, Arshba adds, "I do not exclude the participation of U.S. advisers." Washington says its advisers will prepare Georgian counter-terrorist troops to root...