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Posner said the idea for the series was born when Brown visited a Harvard foreign film workshop in April...
...administration's hostile policies against student theater have never been anything new. Nearly 70 years ago Professor George Baker, who first brought fame to the Agassiz with his daring new drama workshop, quit Harvard in apparent disgust with the lack of support from the College. His "47 Workshop" bred future playwrights like Eugene O'Neill and Thomas Wolfe. Student theater has never been able to recover from this blow. For all its reputation, Harvard's theater scene is a lamentable mess, continually outstripped by programs in other universities today...
...those who sat out the sexual revolution, they may be too embarrassed or intimidated to talk to teens -- or afraid of giving the wrong information. Phyllis Shea, director of teen programs for the Worcester, Massachusetts, affiliate of Girls Inc. (formerly Girls Clubs of America), recently ran a sex- education workshop for 12 girls and their mothers. In many cases, she says, mothers lag far behind their daughters in knowledge. Five of the mothers had never seen a condom. A mother who had been completely unwilling to discuss sex with her daughter told the group that she had been molested...
Starting Friday, each day included screenings of at least two films by workshop filmmakers, a series of seminars and dinner at Adams House, which was suitably adorned with miniature French flags. On one occasion, several students at Adams House mistook the jeune Val*rie Stroh for a foreign exchange student. Stroh screened her most recent film, "Un homme et deux femmes" (1992) at the Film Archive on Friday night. After midnight each night, workshop participants and filmmakers retired to John Harvard's Brew House for conversation and libation...
Among the highlights of the workshop was a discussion with Seymour Cassel. In his energetic, irreverent manner, Cassel, who most recently appeared in "Indecent Proposal" (1993), spoke about acting, film, his experiences working with director John Cassavetes and his starring role in Rockwell's new film...