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...sweeping crescendo. Near the end, Fishburn muttered the bleak line, “It’s the one part of my life that feels right...and that’s the bit that’s wrong,” with a chilly eeriness. Sound designer Nick J. Shearer ’09 took a rather minimalist approach with the use of music and sound effects throughout the production. But in the rare instances when they were employed, they succeeded in heightening both humorous and more dramatic moments. Lighting designer Josh Randall’s subtle uses of light...
...only apt that For Your Consideration is premiering here. It relates the making of a small, indie film - Home for Purim, about a Southern Jewish family - that some showbiz blogger unaccountably tips as an Oscar contender. In a trice, the non-starry cast (impersonated by Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer, Parker Posey and Christopher Moynihan) gets dreaming of statuettes - an addiction that infects the film's director, sitcom veteran Jay Berman (Guest, funny) and the studio boss (Ricky Gervais) who now thinks the film could be big big big, if only everything were changed...
...ballet slippers? Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's fevered parable of ballet's uneasy kinship of music and dance turned an art-business into a battlefield of egos, lusts and near demonic possessiveness. It established Anton Walbrook as the Svengali of his day and made a star of Moira Shearer...
...Shearer's Royal Ballet colleague Margot Fonteyn was by 1948 the world's top ballet dancer. Her grace, sense of drama and ability to remain en pointe for seemingly minutes on end won her wide acclaim (and the cover of TIME). Later, when she was in her 40s, she found new life and a new lover with young Rudolf Nureyev. But her story was gaudier than her renown: the stuff of affairs, abortions, gunrunning for her Panamanian husband, an old age stripped of wealth, burial in a pauper's grave. Tony Palmer's thrilling 2005 documentary brims with pertinent clips...
...West Wing” sit down for an evening chat, politics and pop culture are fair game. Yesterday’s discussion, “Making a Difference: When Hollywood Meets Capitol Hill,” brought together comedian, radio personality, and Simpsons writer Harry Shearer and Emmy Award-winning producer and writer of the West Wing Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. ’76 at the Harvard Law School. Atlantic Monthly senior editor Corby Kummer moderated. The panel, co-sponsored by the HLS Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law and arts and entertainment nonprofit Creative Coalition...