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...list of influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House, in which the protagonist dreams that her husband adds wings and a propeller to their home and flies away into the universe to escape foreclosure. M. Thomas Inge, ASHLAND...
...attracting huge new audiences to their inventive and emotionally charged shows. On Aug. 22, at the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, they launch Dorian Gray, a tale of modern celebrity meltdown based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. "It's very dark," says Richard Winsor, who dances the title role. "The book holds things back - but we're not holding anything back. Sexually, we're going further than we've ever gone...
...Risky Moves At a rehearsal studio above Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, Winsor - who also played the lead in Edward Scissorhands - is running through a series of macabre duets with his partners and victims. The music, by British composer Terry Davies, a long-time Bourne collaborator, is contemporary club scene with a sinister edge. "The show's very fast-paced," says Winsor, who prepared for the role by watching films like Peeping Tom, Matador and American Psycho. "We're making him much more psychopathic than in the book. He spirals completely out of control...
...that he had more girl friends during his time at Belmont Hill than he does at Harvard. “If anything, I miss the girl experience I had at [Belmont Hill],” he says.MEAN GIRLSFor Maddy Fleming, a recent Harvard acceptee and current senior at the Winsor School, a private all-girls school in Boston, the small amount of gender stereotyping she encountered was quickly outweighed by the positive nature of her experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting...
...justice system and “to safeguard the privacy of the CORI subjects, so that this obviously embarrassing and damaging information about them would get into the hands of only people with a clear need to know the information,” according to a report by Ernest Winsor of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.Over the past decade, however, employers in all sectors of the job market have used CORIs to indiscriminately deny jobs both to former criminals and the accused (persons who are acquitted of charges still have those charges added to CORI). Record holders are also denied...