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...Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha, may duplicate her Asian luminosity. But Wong was the No. 1 Chinese lady, from the teens to the 60s, and there was no No. 2. Against devastating odds, she made her name in silent films in the U.S., with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad, and abroad, starring in the amazing Anglo-German Piccadilly. Like Greta Garbo, Wong developed a gestural language for silent film and attached it to her already formidable screen presence. When sound came in, she wanted to stick around...
Such is the life of Susan Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Orchid Thief, on which the movie Adaptation is based. Last Wednesday evening, a crowd of fans slogged through the rain to the Brattle Theater to hear Orlean read selections from her latest book My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere, a collection of short pieces that Orlean has written over the years, all dealing with the theme of “journeys...
Poor man--he's addicted to heroism. Late for an important date, he can't help helping an old lady whose cat is up a tree (by uprooting the tree and shaking the kitty down). He leaps tall buildings to catch a thief, and zooms into the air to save a man plummeting to the ground. All right, so he's late for his date. All right, the date is his own wedding. But a man's got to do his job. And when his name is Mr. Incredible, most stalwart of all superheroes, a job can be an obsession...
...Yorker essayist and novelist Susan Orlean, whose book The Orchid Thief was the inspiration for the film Adaptation, will discuss her new book My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who’s Been Everywhere. In her travel narrative, Orlean climbs Mt. Fuji, plays ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, and visits Dubya’s hometown of Midland, Texas among other notable locales. Free tickets are required and can be obtained at Harvard Book Store. 6 p.m. Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle Street...
...ConnectU’s lackluster debut has shown, they only needed one way. ConnectU accuses Zuckerberg of stealing aspects of their business model. It’s good he didn’t steal the part that said: “Launch site in May.” Thief or not, Zuckerberg correctly recognized that the first college facebook site would be the one to succeed. Thefacebook started in February with one school. ConnectU came packed full of features and schools. Too bad it came three months too late...