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...Alice’s Restaurant’ was the group that rejected the draft. That was extraordinarily bold and forthcoming politically. This current generation...I don’t know what the beef is.” The director also offered little-known pieces of trivia about the films screened at the HFA. In “The Chase,” for example, Marlon Brando refused to use a stunt double in the scene in which his character, Sheriff Calder, is attacked by men living in the surrounding town, insisting that the other actors actually hit him. The fight...
...bought your Star Wars issue for my 11-year-old son [CINEMA, April 26] and greatly enjoyed listening to him announce over breakfast the latest news and trivia about Episode I--The Phantom Menace. As a parent, I am happy to take him to see this film--not just for the dazzling special effects or the exciting story but because the Star Wars saga celebrates free will and contains lessons about persistence, faith and the necessity of hope. These stories appeal to children; they never condescend but include their young audience in the fantasy and fun. My son proclaimed...
...McKinley Family, the Heller Family Foundation, TECH, Highland Capital Partners, and the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard. I^3 plans to hold its launch party Saturday at the Queen’s Head Pub. To emphasize the multitrack and innovative nature of the challenge, the event will feature trivia, Lego-building, and “crazy idea” generation competitions...
...deadlinehollywooddaily.com over the weekend and on speechlesswithoutwriters.com as of Nov. 26, is a riff on the theme "speechless." Hunter discovers her script has been outsourced to India; Linney tries to overcome her writer-less life with a 12-step meeting and a box of cards from the "Scene It?" trivia game; Penn mouths words the audience can't hear; Clarkson and Amy Ryan deliver an impassioned reading of the phone book. Woody Allen, Maggie Gyllenhaal and John Waters are all scheduled to shoot their own "speechless" PSAs in coming days. Crash director Paul Haggis just shot a spot with Moore...
...Munn ’08, one of the Women’s Center interns in charge of organizing the event. To that effect, in between the performances by Harvard bands After Hours and The Sinister Turns and soloist Catherine D. Tuttle ’09, organizers asked the audience trivia questions about famous female musicians. Sandra L. Ullman ’07, the program administrator at the center, said that the organization conceived of the event last spring, and decided to solicit campus acts led by women. She added that although the pub night was originally planned to take place...