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...semester last year, and the rag, Harvard's short-lived ultrafeminist journal, had just run a picture of a woman's vagina, with litcigarette inserted, propped up on a stack of books (such as Moby Dick). The picture was titled "The Educated Pussy" and had caused a small-to-medium-sized stir on campus, as well as some great Crimson editorial cartoons...
Commissioned as an ensign in May 1943, Rubinwas assigned to a Landing Craft Tank (LCT), whichcarried six Sherman medium tanks in a convoy boundfor Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands...
Movies have been filching from television (as they earlier did from radio programs) since the medium's infancy, but for decades the source materials were mainly one-shot plays or marginal TV fare. In 1955, Marty, a faithful rendering of Paddy Chayefsky's drama, was a critical success that won the Oscar for best picture, and Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, a basting of three episodes of a Disney-TV western, was a surprise box-office hit. For a few more years, television's prized anthology series, like Broadway, continued to spawn serious films: The Bachelor Party, Requiem...
...show be too good for movie adaptation? Maverick director Richard Donner, who has had his share of series stuff (including Gilligan's Island) before graduating to feature films, thinks not. "There are no sacred cows in television," he says. "The medium is too young." Still, it's hard not to wince in anticipation of three projects based on '50s TV classics: Sgt. Bilko, from the Phil Silvers sitcom You'll Never Get Rich, Father Knows Best and The Honeymooners. These series, pretty perfect in their original incarnations, would seem hard to improve on and all too easy to debase...
...purist's sensitivity to rhythm, tone and order, while his words and actions remained erratic and undecipherable. A recluse who eventually gave up live performances, he soon found other means of communication through his writing, recordings, and radio shows. Director Francois Girard transposes Gould's contradictions into another medium in his film, "Thirty Two short Films About Glenn Gould...