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There's something very Tom Cruiseian about this character: "Let's do something!" Yet this is a talk movie, not an action movie. It's a daring start for a new company in Hollywood, where a film's success is determined by how many people...
...while Castro-Wright and his team plan the Wal-Mart of the future, the company's legal team has been fighting the same old ugly labor battles. Wal-Mart has been tarred by an ongoing gender-discrimination class action filed in California in 2001, and it recently was ordered to pay $62 million in penalties on top of the $78.5 million judgment awarded by a jury last year after it found Wal-Mart guilty of shortchanging associates in Pennsylvania who worked during their breaks or after they clocked out. (Wal-Mart says it will appeal.) Nor has it looked...
...words “film production” primarily bring to mind three things: lights, camera, and action. But as Robert M. Kraft ’76 pointed out at Harvard last weekend, movies would be sorely lacking without a fourth addition to the list: Music. Kraft, the current president of Fox Music, provided glimpses into his unique career as a film composer at a film music lecture and a workshop for composers. Because music scoring is the last production process, it presents particular challenges, he explained at Saturday’s lecture. “Great [composers] are utterly...
...lose some part of the author’s vision.”To fully preserve that vision, the play will not have any English-language aids, including captions. Before attending, the audience should brush up on their Spanish; during the performance, viewers can also rely on stage action. “I think [the viewers are] going to pay a lot more attention to the sounds, the actions, the expressions of the performers, which in some sense adds more to the theatrical experience because people will be seeing all manners of the performance and not just being listening...
...disturbing becomes beautiful. In “The Artist in Prison,” Valentine delicately describes a prisoner with a life sentence, trading simple things such as cigarettes “for socks / for their threads...to embroider little / pictures” for someone else. This single action simply reveals the beauty of life. Even in oppressive, seemingly eternal captivity, a muted contentment prevails. Through enjambment and strategic placement of dashes, the poem suggests that it might be read as a series of questions or statements—possibly between multiple speakers—introducing an element of interpretative...