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...valuable player. Taylor led the Crimson offense with 35 points, including 12 goals in his senior campaign. His counterpart, David MacDonald, received the Ralph “Cooney” Weiland Award for devotion to the game, along with fellow senior Tyler Magura. Sophomore Ian Tallett received the Donald Angier Hockey Trophy, awarded to the team’s most improved player, while Michael Biega and Matt McCollem earned the George Percy Award as the team’s top freshmen performers. —CRIMSON STAFF
...senior—who ranks fifth in Harvard hockey history with 134 career games played—skated in all 33 of the Crimson’s games this season and was an integral part of Harvard’s penalty kill. Junior Alex Meintel was awarded the Donald Angier Trophy as the team’s most improved player. After two seasons in which the forward, marred by injuries, struggled with consistency, Meintel became one of the Crimson’s primary offensive weapons down the stretch, tallying 13 goals in a 15-game span. Freshmen Alex Biega...
...Prestige, which he co-wrote with his brother, Jonathan, presents us with two magicians, at first friends but soon enough deadly rivals: Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman), slick and romantically appealing, is a master of on-stage presentation; Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is his technical superior, but nowhere near so commanding a figure in the theater. One night something goes terribly wrong with their act (an assistant who happens also to be Angier's lover dies) and Borden is convicted of murder and languishes in jail, waiting to be hanged. Meanwhile, the radically deranged Angier seeks out a real historical figure...
...some measure it is because there are real romantic issues at stake in the film-emotional losses and betrayals (Scarlett Johansson's tricky, sexually riven character). Persuasively acted, this material is played with a simple, often dark and passionate force, that contrasts effectively with the spectacular chimeras over which Angier and Borden endlessly obsess...
...Prestige” follows two promising apprentice magicians, the brooding yet brave Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and the suave yet safer Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman), as they embark on rival careers...