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...details in the film drawn directly from your Adventureland experience? I took some artistic license, and pulled things from different periods of my young life. As we were taking the project to studios, many wanted me to make it contemporary, but I thought that was precisely what made it funny - to dredge up all these specific old memories, and to recreate them. I love that it's set in a different time period, when James would take this all way too seriously, shocked that all these games are rigged at the amusement park. And I love that this college...
...know that I faced many of these same problems, saving all my money so I could go to film school, and I found it interesting as I started getting notes on this script from people in Hollywood that some told me not to make it a period piece because kids will think it's about a different generation, and then some were asking me: Well, why doesn't James just go to New York and get a job at The New Yorker? Why is he such a loser at an amusement park? And I was sort of like...
...Investors who believe that Apple can still do well got a hand. Smart phone king Research In Motion (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry, posted strong earnings for the last quarter. The company did what Wall St. likes most of all. It did better than expected in the last reporting period and said it would do better than people anticipated in the future. Now Wall St. gets to re-evaluate Apple. RIMM, which is among the lesser branded competitors in the field, has done fine even in a downturn. Even if the recession has been deepening, businesses and consumers are willing...
...emphasized that his group is “opposed to community benefits as an appeasement and a replacement of having direct neighborhood participation [in the planning process].” Glavin said he is open to the idea of petitioning Harvard to extend funding beyond the current five-year period, depending on whether the program is “responding well [to] local needs.” —Staff writer Vidya B. Viswanathan can be reached at viswanat@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...
...this period of transition for the VES, Mitchnick’s departure is simply the most recent upset in what have been difficult times. The imminent change has not only troubled ardent supporters of the painting instructor, and alumni, but also unearthed longstanding, deeper anxieties concerning the direction in which the department is headed. Yet if VES is to continue to fulfill its mission to provide the best education possible to its students, then the troubling perception that the position of a more traditional, hands-on approach to art education has been rendered precarious by a move towards the theoretical...