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...have faded to the periphery of popular culture, but the small venue tucked in the alleyway between two halves of the Harvard Coop continues to bring together singer-songwriters—including two Harvard grads, David Berkeley ’99-’00 and Noam I. Weinstein...
...their gig two weeks ago, Berkeley and Weinstein returned to their Cambridge roots, having only in the past year decided to make music into their source of rent and food money. Their’s is the opposite, said Berkeley, of the career- and money-driven culture often encouraged by Harvard...
...think that there’s certainly a tradeoff for all people choosing to play music, between security and stability or surprise and exploration,” Weinstein said...
Clooney began by pitching the film, originally budgeted at $38 million, to Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein. "The first thing I said to Harvey was that the budget comes in under $30 million." He also called on some of his Ocean's Eleven acting pals to guest-star in his shell game: Julia Roberts as a femme fatale, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon as losing contestants on The Dating Game. The director also played Barris' mysterious (i.e., imaginary) CIA contact, spitting out some choice Kaufman dialogue and giving the film even more star heft...
Thus Gangs--with so many detours in its making, and abraded by Scorsese's well-publicized struggle with Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Films--may be the epic's last gasp. If so, it is a gasp that sings, howls, like a grand tenor at an Irish wake. Set in the gaudy, pestilential Five Points section of lower Manhattan, Gangs begins with an 1846 street fight: Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis ) and his Nativists against Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson) and his horde of Hibernians. It ends in 1863 with another rumble--Bill now battling Priest's vengeful son Amsterdam (Leonardo...