Word: writer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff writer for the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, was caught trying to vandalize The Harvard Crimson building...
Giacchetto wasn't born in the fast lane. He grew up middle-class outside Boston, the son of a novelist-radio writer and a nurse. As a young money manager in New York City, he befriended Jay Moloney, a fast-rising Hollywood agent and Ovitz protege. (Moloney committed suicide last month, after years of battling drug addiction.) With Moloney's entree, Giacchetto--blond, boyish and exuding a vulnerable aura--charmed his way into the lives and bank accounts of Young Hollywood. His new pals were dazzled by his ability to straddle two worlds. As DiCaprio manager Rick Yorn once said...
...THREE KINGS Calculated brutality and mindless consumerism exist side by uneasy side as American soldiers search for gold and find postmodern anarchy in the Gulf War's aftermath. Writer-director David O. Russell's electrifying trip down the rabbit hole is bruising, amusing, scary, yet finally very moving...
...ROOTS Things Fall Apart (MCA). This Philadelphia-based band named its CD after a novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe: very cool. And while other rap acts rely on canned beats, the Roots play instruments (guitars, drums, etc.), giving their work unique vibrancy and depth. Let the cartoon gangstas cater to suburban stereotypes--the Roots are keeping it real...
...CONTACT How to get the ailing Broadway musical off life support? Director Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman have an answer: Cut out the singing. Their exhilarating show is composed of three heartfelt love stories told in dance and dialogue accompanied mostly by a wildly diverse jukebox of pop records and enlivened by the performances of Deborah Yates and Karen Ziemba...