Word: taymor
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...Laurie Taymor-Berry, who registered as a candidate on Monday, says she plans to begin an active campaign to bring her priorities—addressing issues facing low-income residents, people of color and jobless young people—to the forefront of Cambridge public consciousness...
...lifelong activist who started her work in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Taymor-Berry says that she is motivated largely by ideals of mitigating economic disparities in the city...
...Taymor-Berry says she wants to harness the prosperity of Cambridge’s universities and burgeoning industry to help support residents currently struggling to find jobs. She proposes that Harvard and MIT pay local property taxes, from which they are presently exempt...
...more nine-tenths-empty stat: only 10% of last year's films were directed by women. "A female has never won Best Director at the Oscars," notes Salma Hayek, who produced and starred in the biopic Frida and chose Julie Taymor to direct it. "I think people are threatened by us." It's just another burden in making women's films...
...chipper biopics in which the heroine (Salma Hayek) cheerfully endures her suffering while incidentally creating her art and carrying on her endlessly tormented love affair with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The result is a trivializing movie, especially disappointing because it was directed by Broadway's lionized Julie Taymor (The Lion King). Her first theatrical film, Titus, was distinguished by a bold and visionary sweep. In Frida that inventiveness has diminished to a kind of strained cuteness. Everything that makes an artist an artist--the obsessions, the egotism--is ignored in favor of upbeat movie conventions. --By Richard Schickel...