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While the first true test will come tomorrow night, when Harvard heads to Troy, N.Y., to faceoff against RPI, yesterday’s solid practices already reflect the metaphorical kick in the ass that the Crimson has ridden to the ECAC tournament finals each year since...
They’re acquiring more titles than they know what to do with. At the tender age of 27, Tom Brady already has as many rings as Troy Aikman and Larry Bird. Three more titles, and Brady will have won enough rings to completely fill the hand of hexadactylic baseball reliever Antonio Alfonseca...
...Troy, Mich. and Quincy House...
This documentary follows the rise and fall of Troy Duffy, a Bostonian bartender who makes an astonishing, life-changing deal with Miramax Films. Miramax is so impressed with Troy’s screenplay, The Boondock Saints, that they offer Troy the chance to direct the film with a huge budget and create its soundtrack using music performed by his band. Sitting on top of the world, Troy manages to commit blunder after blunder, mishandling negotiations and alienating his supporters. He eventually loses his deal with Miramax and becomes a pariah in Hollywood. The movie’s biggest strength...
...ending seems to cast Troy in a sympathetic light, an odd shift from the pervasive anti-Troy sentiment of the rest of the movie. Maybe the directors themselves do not know what to feel about their ex-friend. But after watching one-and-a-half hours of Troy’s greedy hoarding and inevitable self-destruction, one hopes that the directors’ finale is an attempt at rising above vengeance and mercenary exploitation. But maybe it’s not, and they simply retained more of Hollywood than they realized...