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DIED. EDMUND BACON, 95, irascible urban planner (and father of actor Kevin Bacon) whose revitalization of Philadelphia landed him in 1964 on the cover of TIME, which lauded his work as the "most skillfully coordinated of all big-city programs in the U.S."; in Philadelphia. Among his contributions: the conception of Penn Center, a collection of high-rises, shops and restaurants credited with sparking the city's rebirth. Bacon's 1967 book, Design of Cities, remains a staple of many architecture classes...
...became nonprofit in 2001, a move that Hinkle said he believes “[speaks] to what the Brattle is known for.” The Brattle’s dramatic legacy began in 1946, before it started screening films. Jerome T. Kilty ’49, a student actor who considered Harvard’s dramatic societies too exclusive, placed an ad in The Crimson inviting fellow students interested in forming a theater group to join him. The ensemble that resulted bought Brattle Hall, the large brick building on Brattle St. that now houses the theater. During the 1950s...
...real Domino Harvey, whom Knightley portrays, was the daughter of British actor Laurence Harvey (“The Manchurian Candidate”) and a Los Angeles bounty hunter. She was recently found dead in her bathtub at the age of 36 after an overdose of painkillers. Scott glamorizes Domino’s life (ignoring her death except for a passing mention in the credits, since it happened during filming) in a pseudo-ironic and very unsuccessful way: he seems to both want to show Domino’s delusional love of her bizarre profession and to seduce his audience with...
Caro succeeds in making a thoroughly complex film, so multifaceted that this review barely covers half of the issues and questions presented. Caro’s masterful direction is evident as every actor reaches and breaks an emotional ceiling...
Still, the landscape hasn’t changed so much that Strathairn’s arresting performance could escape recognition. In early September, he received best-actor honors at the sixty-second Venice Biennale—a film festival held in Italy, a country with its own right-wing spin machine to worry about...