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...Pride & Prejudice” is the first feature film for director Joe Wright. Yet, in his debut work, he demonstrates the intuitive mixture of risk-taking and creativity in his choices that mark the craft of a master filmmaker, whether in changing the setting of the film to 1797—the year that Jane Austen wrote the novel’s first draft—because of his distaste for empire line dresses, or by intriguing Dame Judi Dench by sending a candid letter that read, “I love it when you’re a bitch...
...Ashley Wright caught two touchdown passes for Yale. Wright’s second touchdown catch tied the game at 14-14 with 2:10 left in the first half. A botched squib kick attempt on the ensuing kickoff was recovered by Brown at the Yale...
Yale quarterback Jeff Mroz’s third try at Wright in the end zone was intercepted by James Gasparella with 8:33 left in the fourth quarter, ending a drive by the Bulldogs, who trailed 38-21 at the time. Yale never got the ball back as Brown ran out the clock with a 14-play, 43-yard drive...
...director Rob Marshall, whose first big film was the 2002 musical Chicago, has made this fairy tale into an emotionally sumptuous love story. This intimate epic spans almost two decades, but its script, by Robin Swicord and Doug Wright, never hurries past the telling biographical detail of its four main characters. Nor does the movie's visual splendor ever obscure the furtive, assertive heart beating under the kimono. It's still early in the season of Oscar contenders, but Geisha has a shot to join Chicago as a Best Picture champ...
...latest book, “Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals.” But just as Wright’s characters don drag, his book takes on a masquerade of sorts. At times, it is fiction dressed as fact.To be sure, Wright ensconced himself in the bowels of Pusey Library for many months while researching the book—in which he paints a portrait of a Harvard campus gripped by homophobic hysteria. In 1920, a secret tribunal under the aegis of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, expelled...