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Enter The Dot-Comedy of Errors. The brainchild of writers Ezra Keshet ’99 and Yoho Myrvaagnes ’01 and director Rachel J. Eisenhaure ’02, the musical is a free-wheeling mockery, playfully ridiculing all that was embodied in the internet generation while teasing itself for its flimsy plot and obviously farcical elements...
...Marquand prize, first awarded this year, was the brainchild of Robert Aranow ’77. At Harvard, he became friends with John H. Marquand, the senior tutor of Dudley House and secretary of the Faculty and administrative board. When Marquand died of cancer in 1991, Aranow began raising $100,000 to create a prize in Marquand’s honor...
This year there is a new film festival geared especially, but not exclusively, for students of Ivy League schools. Fittingly, it is called the Ivy Film Festival. The brainchild of David Peck, a junior at Brown, the festival has already achieved great esteem due to the participation of such celebrity panelists and guest speakers as writer/director James Toback ’66 (Black & White, Bugsy and Harvard Man), producer Barbara Boyle (Bottle Rocket, Phenomenon and Instinct), actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O, The Grey Zone and O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and the possibility of other notable personalities...
...Originally created for a skit during the 1996 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, the character of male supermodel extraordinaire Derek Zoolander is the brainchild of actor Ben Stiller, who also co-wrote and directed the film. The plot revolves around the premise that male models have been behind every major political assassination in the past 200 years. Ludicrous as it sounds, the premise is actually one of the better aspects of the film. It’s something that sounds great in the abstract, but ends up being little more than a Manchurian Candidate...
...brainchild of Samuel R. Hornblower ’02, is a feature that provides video clips of campus events as well as clips that supplement Crimson print coverage, and the feature is specifically geared toward a Harvard audience...