Word: bram
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According to Rosenbaum, over 20 campus organizations are working in conjunction with RUS to put on the week's activities. These include the Undergraduate Council, the Institute of Politics, Philips Brooks House Association, University Health Services and various ethnic and counseling organizations.CrimsonHenry G. WeiAuthor CHIRSTOPHER BRAM reads from his new book, Gossip, at Dudley House yesterday...
...films can be made for $7 million (Desperado) or less than a million (Living in Oblivion). They may be based on plays (Jeffrey, from Paul Rudnick's comedy) or novels (Nadja, from Bram Stoker's Dracula). The stars may be esteemed actors (Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects) or the director's girlfriend (Maxine Bahns in The Brothers McMullen). Some sing, the others don't. But all prove that films can be intimate as well as epic, that off-Hollywood is one destination for films of the next century...
These are old-fashioned virtues. Indeed, without Ryder the movies might have forgotten them. And that is why Hollywood has virtually ceded the 19th century to her. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, in The Age of Innocence and now in director Gillian Armstrong's stately, shimmering version of Little Women, Ryder must translate for a modern audience the purity and confusions of a time when a first kiss was the climax to an adventure and goodness was a goal worth fighting...
Francis Ford Coppola, Branagh's co-producer, apparently sought to create a lush, accessible 'literary' film in the style of his "Bram Stoker's Dracula." Yet both men would have done well to examine Branagh's own Henry V and Dead Again--films that seek to tell a compelling story well rather than to make a pretty film, and hence succeed at both...
...important. "They don't see themselves as gamblers," says Steve Wynn of the new tourists he is attracting. "They think of themselves as folks who are on vacation, and while they are there -- hey, let's put some money in the slot machine." Wynn hired screenwriter Jim Hart (Hook, Bram Stoker's Dracula) to write a one-hour family-adventure TV movie (NBC, Jan. 23) set at Treasure Island, and while Hart says the movie reaffirms family values and he flew his children out during production, he understands the place has an intrinsically dark edge. "You can come...