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According to FiCom member Vivien G. Wu ’08, who describes herself as an “unofficial member” of the Bacchus Society, the group applied for a student group grant because the UC party fund had not been instituted for that particular weekend...
...when stars are in rehab before they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented a moral and emotional aristocracy that no longer exists - if it ever did, outside of her pictures...
...inspected two parties Saturday night. “It is a trial period,” he said. “We’ll see how it goes in the next few weeks.” Finance Committee member and Cabot House UC representative Vivien G. Wu ’08 said that there is no set protocol to notify hosts that their party will undergo inspection. Hosts could easily check UC open or others might be notified ahead of time by the investigators themselves, she said. Staff said that the UC wasn’t trying...
...hour radio adaptations, among them one by Orson Welles, and footage of the screen tests for Joan Fontaine, who won the starring role of the second Mrs. de Winter, opposite Laurence Olivier, as well as for also-rans Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young and Olivier's then-wife Vivien Leigh...
Something went gloriously awry when Elia Kazan staged Tennessee Williams' poetic parable of antique Southern illusions colliding with postwar urban brutishness. The young Marlon Brando made Stanley Kowalski a manifesto for sexual menace that defines American acting to this day. The 1951 film version, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, restores equilibrium without neutering Brando--a great play revitalized. It's in a topflight pack of six Williams adaptations that includes chats with surviving co-stars, TIME critic Richard Schickel's Kazan documentary and an early, quirky Brando screen test...