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...David R. Kleaves ’05 figured he’d win some easy money off William K. Weaver ’98-’03 by betting Weaver he couldn’t eat three Saltines in 30 seconds, a feat considered impossible by many culinary experts. But those experts have never seen the likes of the hormonally berserk Weaver, whose has salivary glands the size of a tennis ball. This is not so much a joke as a strange and uncomfortable truth...
...Weaver, curator and co-organizer of The ChinaFilm Project, said the festival was only one component within the project’s broader aim of promoting mutual appreciation and respect, as well as improved economic relations, between the United States and China through film and other moving images...
This year’s festival was a particularly momentous event. While speaking in Beijing last spring at an American Studies workshop on “The Hollywood Dream Factory and American Realities,” Weaver paid a visit to the BFA to discuss the possibility of collaborating on The ChinaFilm Project. This discussion resulted in the arrival of a BFA delegation at Harvard two weeks ago to participate in a forum and associated workshops at the Harvard Film Archive on Nov. 22. Such workshops included Chinese cinema scholars from Harvard, as well as from Yale, Brown, Tufts, Northeastern...
Given such promising talent and the huge potential markets for Chinese cinema with China’s entry into the World Trade Organzation, Weaver is hopeful, yet cautious in his prognosis for the future. He warns of the subordination of the creative to the commercial, a phenomenon which is reciprocally evident in China itself, where theaters play only major action films and American blockbusters. One wonders if American audiences will take to the budding Chinese independents, or whether the industry will become Hollywood-ized by the importunate mainstream demands of its consumers...
...Stopping the fake [punt] against Columbia, which could have been a momentum changer, was a big play,” said Harvard special teams coach Tim Weaver...