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...media give it vast amounts of airtime and column inches. Even fashion magazines carry serious book reviews, and the Nov. 5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...negotiating the road from Broadway musical to major motion picture, strewn as it is with the burned-out hulks of vehicles like 2005's The Producers and Rent. Viewers currently like their cinematic fantasy fairly realistic, the better to suspend disbelief. But in reality, only crazy people break into song in the course of regular conversation. Conversely, the weirder the movie musical is, the better it appears to work (see Moulin Rouge! or Chicago). This would seem to play to Burton's and Depp's strengths...
Whether the movie turns out to be a bloodbath or a triumphal song, one thing's for sure: it will be cutting edge...
Intermission: Who doesn't love Bon Jovi? But it's sad when all Harvard can offer in response to the Big Red band is a song over the PA system. Let's just get back to the action...
...Steven K. Williams ’08 also thanked their supporters, then Williams pulled various members of the football team forward, citing them as reasons why he thought Harvard would triumph over the Elis tomorrow The team then proved their Harvard knowledge by singing the fight song, “10,000 Men of Harvard,” in both English and Latin. The Din and Tonics completed the musical section with a performance of the alma mater, “Fair Harvard.” This was the second year in a row that rain threatened to derail plans...