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Harvard Man, the latest film from director and screenwriter James Toback ’66, makes its Cambridge debut at the Brattle Theater tonight...
...screening the participants’ films, the festival will include a screening of Demian, a film co-written and co-produced by Peck, and directed by Tim Henry, another Brown student, and the sneak preview of Harvard Man, a Lion’s Gate Films production directed by James Toback, one of the celebrity panelists. This film, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Adrian Grenier and Joey Lauren Adams, is about the dark side of college sports and relationships as discovered by the point guard of the Harvard basketball team, Grenier, who maintains relationships with both Gellar, who plays a student...
...geared especially, but not exclusively, for students of Ivy League schools. Fittingly, it is called the Ivy Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities yet to be named. In addition to judging the submissions, these...
...Harvard Man, besides falling for his young, attractive and tenured professor, goes the way of DiCaprio's character and becomes involved with drugs--and then spirals into crime and a connection with the Mafia. Though it's unlikely that many "real" Harvard men network with Mafia members, Toback attempts to recreate a modern day version of his days at Harvard--somewhat dramatized, of course...
Though engrossed in Harvard Man, Toback is looking forward to his next creation, distributed by Sony Pictures. The story will follow the life of an 11-year old aspiring pianist as he changes his aspirations and becomes a filmmaker...