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And the Irving Thalberg Award goes to… Robert De Niro as Irving Thalberg in "The Last Tycoon" Text and Context— Text: Jerky Treats for dogs Context: "Mad Dog…
Related material— See also yesterday's Symmetric Generation.
In memoriam … Bridget Fonda in "Point of No Return." This is a 1993 remake of 1990's "La Femme Nikita ," virtually the same scene-by-scene, but with two…
Gates of Hell (continued from the birthday this year of Pope Benedict XVI) "'I took a course in modern poetry when I was back at the university,' he…
Retrospect "It was only in retrospect that the silliness became profound." — Review of Faust in Copenhagen
The Magic of Numbers "Emphasis will be placed on discovery through conjecture and experimentation." — Elena Mantovan, pre-2007 undated Harvard syllabus for Quantitative Reasoning 28, "The Magic of…
Shining Forth continued: The Grace of Accuracy In this morning's New York Times: The Times describes yesterday's memorial to Cy Feuer, producer, notably, of the 1972 film version…
For Serge Lang "Get the aggressively mediocre Yale Daily News obituary here ('he is remembered for his significant academic contributions'?? give me a break…)" — Tom So far,…
Tribute In memory of Russ Meyer, who "made industrial films for Standard Oil and lumber companies before making his own films," a picture that might aptly (see Pi…
Semitism Norman F. Cantor on Christianity: "Christianity itself was a Jewish enterprise, and not simply because Jesus was a Jew; Cantor points out, in his characteristically flippant way,…