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...Received with no special enthusiasm in Europe, cut by censors into incoherence in the U.S., Pandora's Box had to wait a generation to find its audience. But when recognition for the film, and even more so for Brooks, did come, it didn't stop. The Anna Karina character in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie was based on her, as was Melanie Griffith's Lulu in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. An adoring 1979 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Tynan (calling Brooks "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever committed to celluloid") cemented her celebrity, and suddenly...
...served in as of the women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano ... and the twins: Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan). These actresses and others gave an appealing face, and body, to foreign films, which had then what most of them lack now: star quality...
...film’s writers to see into the last days of an increasingly reclusive Beethoven. In a typical Hollywood move, the copyist is—miracle of miracles!—also an aspiring composer. The vague plot of the movie follows the developing relationship between Anna and Beethoven, based—presumably—on their infatuation with music. If the audience doesn’t benefit from anything else after seeing this movie, hopefully they will appreciate the dedication of Ed Harris’s performance. He thrusts himself through the role with a dedication to character...
...entertainment while OUR HUAM members gave ten minute talks about select paintings from the Fogg’s collections. Over 110 poured through the doors in the first ten minutes of the evening, according to museum staff. Freshman year roommates Paris A. Spies-Gans ’09 and Anna M. Chen ’09, who founded the group earlier this year, said that they wanted to make Harvard’s museums seem less intimidating and academic and more informal and welcoming. “With OUR HUAM we are trying to generate initial interest among people that...
...incoming freshmen may remedy the holes. To replace Stinetorf and Austin there are three new freshmen foilists—Artemisha Goldfeder, Arielle Pensler, and Anna Podolsky. The men will try to bridge the gap in epee with strong juniors and seniors, although nationally-ranked freshman Billy Stallings may also get in on the action...