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2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 7, 2014

MARRIAGE IN THE MOVIES

[caption id="attachment_593" align="alignleft" width="300"] I Do and I Don't by Jeanine Basinger.[/caption] Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies Jeanine Basinger has just published I Do and I Don’t (Alfred A. Knopf), a meticulously researched and highly engaging history of marriage in the movi…

2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013March 23, 2015

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2013 Issue 1September 18, 2013February 26, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: AN ACTOR FINDS THE PERFECT PART

[caption id="attachment_797" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ari Brand ’06 plays the title role in My Name Is Asher Lev.P…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012March 23, 2015

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Paul Dickson’61 Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick • WALKER AND COMPANY, 2012 In writing this first major biography of one of the most influential and smartest figures in baseball history, Dickson used primary so…

2012 Issue 3December 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Broadway’s Star Producer

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Wesleyan alumni had the special treat of attending two wonderful Broadway productions co-produced by Jeffrey Richards ’69. On February 19, they attended a matinee performance of the vibrant new produc…

2012 Issue 2June 15, 2012September 23, 2014

CONVERSATIONS: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Triumphs at Sundance and Cannes

Each year at the Sundance Film Festival held in January in Park City, Utah, one or two presentations become talked about as the films to see. This year, the standout screening at the festival in the U.S. dramatic film ca…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012September 23, 2014

Kail ’99 Directs Broadway Basketball Play and Interviews Stage Directors

Thomas Kail ’99 will direct Eric Simonson’s Magic/ Bird, a Broadway play based on the relationship between basketball superstars Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, due to open on March 21. The work is produced by Fra…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012March 23, 2015

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JUST PUBLISHED | 2012 ISSUE 1 Stacy Carlson '96 Among the Wonderful • STEERFORTH PRESS, 2011 In her first novel, Carlson brings to life 1840s New York City, a time when Phineas T. Barnum as a young man transforms a du…

2012 Issue 1January 15, 2012April 28, 2014

Capturing the Genius of an American Icon

James Kaplan ’73 is the author of the acclaimed new biography, Frank: The Voice (Doubleday, hardcover; Anchor, paperback), about the early life of one of America’s best known American singers and entertainers of the 20th…

2011 Issue 2June 15, 2011March 23, 2015

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JUST PUBLISHED | 2011 ISSUE 2 Amy Baltzell ’87 Living in the Sweet Spot: Preparing for Performance in Sport and Life • FITNESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 2011 This inspiring guide to preparing for life’s major perfo…