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...Reilly actually recorded his own singing both onscreen and on the soundtrack. More surprising, perhaps, is that “Walk Hard” is only the latest entry in a long musical career for Reilly. “I grew up in Chicago, doing a lot of community theater and musicals all through grade school and high school,” he recalls. “Music has always been a pretty important part of my life, and now it’s just becoming a more important part of my career.” So how did Reilly...
Large vases of white chrysanthemums once adorned the porch of Tercentenary Theater sometime in the late 1960s. There was a line of them on each corner. “I don’t think anybody liked them,” Gomes said. “It seemed unnatural.” There were also some flowery shrubs—rhododendrons—the bulbs of which were placed in a bed outside Massachusetts Hall at some point. “We waited, they grew, and still most people didn’t like...
...wryly inappropriate humor and Morgan Freeman’s unmatched gravitas, it entertains. Guided by the sure hand of Rob Reiner, director of classics including “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Princess Bride,” the viewer can leave the theater a little more grateful for the simpler things. Edward Cole, played by Jack Nicholson, and Carter Chambers, played by Morgan Freeman, meet in a same hospital room where their very divergent lives are thrown into sharp relief. Cole, a billionaire who just happens to own the hospital...
...Great Debaters” concludes with a debate match between the small all-black Texas Wiley College and Harvard—shot in Sanders Theater. In the sequence, a debater from Wiley calmly but daringly calls on the mostly white audience to do something about racial violence and injustice in the South. Yet the movie itself, which takes place in 1935, is not nearly as courageous as the historical characters whose story it tells.The plot originates in the real-life story of Wiley College, whose debate team rose to top levels under the guidance of the soon...
...panel of experts tackled the relationship between digital media and education yesterday at the Brattle Street Theater...