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Though foreign-language talent gets short shrift from American studios and movie theaters, they are often honored with Oscars. Italians won for Original Score (Dario Marianelli, Atonement) and Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, Sweeney Todd); two Frenchmen won for Makeup (Didier Lavergne, La Vie en Rose) and Live Action Short (Philippe Pollet-Villard, the director, writer and star of The Mozart of Pickpockets.) But one reason the Academy often gives Oscars to foreigners is that they seem really to want one. "Thank you, life, thank you, love," Cotillard exclaimed, as effusive as Sally Field or Halle Berry...
...pretty impressive and it shows how all our work has paid off,” junior Sarah Vaillancourt added. “That’s the way to do it—to work really hard in every game. It’s not just the talent that got us here...
...reluctant to make any type of messianic claims about the band. I admit—bashfully—that I learned that lesson at a tender age with the Arctic Monkeys. That said, any step towards separating out the smarminess of modern music should be lauded. Bands with talent don’t need to hide behind a slouch to save face. The Strokes aside, some people still have things to say. —Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a long-form improvisation comedy group, will present “IGP Laugh Riot Festival X: The Enchanted Forest.” The show will also feature groups from several other colleges. Due to the Roving Reporter’s lack of comedic talent, this paragraph is not interesting.Kevin T. Burrows ’10RR: Tell me about the Immediate Gratification Players.KB: IGP is a long-form improv comedy troupe. Usually what we’ll do is take a one-word suggestion and then we’ll kind of riff on that for about...
...recruited,” co-president Andrew C. Coles ’09 says. “That I found patently offensive, that this is the only time we have been called upon to help cast a role. It made me feel like I was the clearinghouse for black talent. What are we, 1-800-Cast-a-Negro?”BlackCAST has been active on the Harvard campus since 1960, the beginning of an era that spawned the Black Arts movement and saw playwrights like Amiri Baraka and Edward Bullins employ a new discourse of black nationalism...