Chapter One: "He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion." No, make that: "He romanticized it all out of proportion." Yeah. "To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin." Ah, let me start this over.
So much for blog posts this month.
New Haven, Conn. — The Yale School of Music has received a gift of $100 million that will allow the school to subsidize fully the tuition for all students, Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced.
Levin said the gift, the largest in the history of the music school, came from a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
“This generous gift will enhance the ability of the school to attract the world’s finest musicians and will support a number of important advances at the school,” Levin said. “Everyone who is part of Yale’s standing as a great center for the arts will be inspired to reach new heights.”
The fully subsidized tuition for all students in the school, including those already enrolled, will begin in the 2006-07 academic year. Other benefits of the gift will be realized over the next several years.
Among other advances, the unprecedented gift to the school will allow it to acquire technology making it possible to broadcast events, clinics and special lectures, including the ability to host and participate in live interactive clinics and workshops with colleagues from conservatories and institution around the world.
The school already has relationships with conservatories in Budapest, Mannheim, Beijing, two schools in Seoul and Moscow, and is working to establish others. These relationships involve exchanges of faculty and students, and will involve exchanges of ensembles. The gift to the school will make it possible to accelerate the pace and expand the depth of these relationships.
The gift also will make it possible for the school to expand its presence in the New Haven Community, from the public school system to partnerships with New Haven's professional arts community. The development of other new programs and additional changes in financial aid for music students in future years are envisioned as possible uses of the large gift to the school.
Acting School of Music Dean Thomas C. Duffy expressed gratitude to the donor on behalf of “the school, its staff, faculty and students, the many fans, artists, musical guests and alumni.”
Duffy said that the leadership of Robert L. Blocker, who served as dean of the school from 1995-2005, sustained the interest in the school on the part of the donor and other supporters.
“An event like this does not happen without the complete support and direct involvement of our Yale president, Richard Levin,” Duffy added. “We are fortunate that our president has a deep commitment to the arts at Yale and has demonstrated that commitment in many ways.”
| 8:00 PM | Citizen Kane (1941) The investigation of a publishing tycoon's dying words reveals conflicting stories about his scandalous life. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead. D: Orson Welles. BW 120m. CC DVS |
| 10:30 PM | On The Waterfront (1954) A young stevedore takes on the mobster who rules the docks. Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger. D: Elia Kazan. BW 108m. LBX CC |
| 10:30 PM | The Country Girl (1954) While trying to help her husband make a comeback, an alcoholic singer's wife fights her love for another man. Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden. D: George Seaton. BW 104m. CC |
| 9:30 AM | Animal Crackers (1930) Three zanies try to recover a stolen painting during a madcap house party. The Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont. D: Victor Heerman. BW 97m. CC |
| 11:30 AM | Cartoon Alley #15 (2005) Features three Tweety Bird cartoons: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942), Birdy and the Beast (1944), A Gruesome Twosome (1945). 26m. CC |
| 6:00 PM | Forbidden Planet (1956) A group of space troopers investigates the destruction of a colony on a remote planet. Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen. D: Fred M. Wilcox. C 99m. LBX CC DVS |
| 8:00 PM | Swing Time (1936) To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore. D: George Stevens. BW 104m. CC DVS |
| 10:00 PM | Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) When their older brother marries, six lumberjacks decide it's time to go courting for themselves. Howard Keel, Jane Powell, Russ Tamblyn. D: Stanley Donen. C 102m. LBX CC DVS |
| 12:00 AM | Doctor Zhivago (1965) Illicit lovers fight to stay together during the turbulent years of the Russian Revolution. Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger. D: David Lean. C 200m. LBX CC DVS |
| 1:30 PM | Going My Way (1944) A young priest revitalizes a failing parish and brings new life to the elder priest. Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise Stevens. D: Leo McCarey. BW 126m. CC |
| 4:00 PM | Gigi (1958) A Parisian girl is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. D: Vincente Minnelli. C 116m. LBX CC DVS |
| 6:00 PM | Swing Time (1936) To prove himself worthy of his fiancee, a dancer tries to make it big, only to fall for his dancing partner. Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore. D: George Stevens. BW 104m. CC DVS |
| 8:00 PM | Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2004) Documentary that explores the life and career of Hollywood anti-hero Steve McQueen. BW & C 87m. LBX CC |
| 9:30 PM | Bullitt (1968) When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own. Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset. D: Peter Yates. C 114m. LBX CC |
| 12:00 AM | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) In this silent film, a hideously deformed man haunts the sewers beneath the Paris Opera. Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. D: Rupert Julian. BW & C 90m. |
| 1:45 AM | Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000) This documentary reveals the secrets of the screen's first great horror star. C 85m. CC |
| 6:00 PM | Sullivan's Travels (1941) A filmmaker masquerades as a hobo to get in touch with the little people. Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest. D: Preston Sturges. BW 90m. CC |
| 5:15 PM | West Side Story (1961) A young couple from dueling street gangs falls in love. Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno. D: Robert Wise. C 152m. LBX CC |
| 8:00 PM | To Have And Have Not (1944) A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. D: Howard Hawks. BW 100m. CC DVS |
| 8:00 AM | Casablanca (1942) An American saloon owner in North Africa is drawn into World War II when his lost love turns up. Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. D: Michael Curtiz. BW 103m. CC DVS |
| 11:30 AM | The Yearling (1946) A Florida boy's pet deer threatens the family farm. Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman, Jr. D: Clarence Brown. C 128m. CC DVS |
| 6:00 PM | To Have And Have Not (1944) A skipper-for-hire's romance with a beautiful drifter is complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan. D: Howard Hawks. BW 100m. CC DVS |
| 3:45 PM | Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) A quarrelsome couple discovers their marriage isn't legal. Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond. D: Alfred Hitchcock. BW 95m. CC |
| 4:30 AM | Safety Last! (1923) In this silent film, a small-town boy out to impress his girlfriend scales a skyscraper in the big city. Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young. D: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor. BW 73m. |
| 8:00 PM | Private Screenings: Sidney Lumet (2005) D: 0m. |
| 9:00 PM | 12 Angry Men (1957) A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall. D: Sidney Lumet. BW 96m. LBX |
| 11:00 PM | Private Screenings: Sidney Lumet (2005) D: 0m. |
| 2:00 AM | Network (1976) Television programmers turn a deranged news anchor into 'the mad prophet of the airwaves.' William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch. D: Sidney Lumet. C 121m. LBX CC |
| 4:15 AM | Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) A young writer tries to find himself while his family falls apart. Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. D: Sidney Lumet. BW 170m. |
| 11:30 AM | The Cocoanuts (1929) While running a hotel in Florida, three clowns get caught up in the search for stolen jewels. The Marx Brothers, Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont. D: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley. BW 93m. CC |
| 1:15 PM | Horse Feathers (1932) In an effort to beef up his school's football team, a college president mistakenly recruits two loonies. The Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd, David Landau. D: Norman Z. McLeod. BW 67m. CC |
| 2:30 PM | A Night at the Opera (1935) Three zanies turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protege's romance with the leading lady. The Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Kitty Carlisle. D: Sam Wood. BW 91m. CC DVS |
| 4:15 PM | A Day At The Races (1937) A group of zanies tries to save a pretty girl's sanitarium. The Marx Bros., Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan. D: Sam Wood. BW 109m. CC DVS |
| 6:15 PM | At The Circus (1939) The Marx Bros. team up to keep a circus from going bankrupt. The Marx Bros., Margaret Dumont, Eve Arden. D: Edward Buzzell. BW 87m. CC |
| 8:00 PM | Jaws (1975) The sheriff of an island town takes to the seas when a bloodthirsty shark invades the local waters. Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss. D: Steven Spielberg. C 124m. LBX |
| 6:00 PM | 12 Angry Men (1957) A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall. D: Sidney Lumet. BW 96m. LBX |
| 11:15 AM | Random Harvest (1942) A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia. Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Susan Peters. D: Mervyn LeRoy. BW 127m. CC |
| 3:30 PM | Mrs. Miniver (1942) A British family struggles to survive the first days of World War II. Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright. D: William Wyler. BW 134m. CC DVS |
| 6:00 PM | Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) A cold-hearted teacher becomes the school favorite when he's thawed by a beautiful young woman. Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid. D: Sam Wood. BW 114m. CC DVS |
| 8:45 AM | Holiday (1938) An unhappy heiress falls in love with her stodgy sister's freethinking fiance. Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Edward Everett Horton. D: George Cukor. BW 96m. CC |
| 4:00 PM | Roman Holiday (1953) A runaway princess in Rome finds love with a reporter who knows her true identity. Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert. D: William Wyler. BW 118m. CC |
| 6:00 PM | To Catch a Thief (1955) A retired cat burglar fights to clear himself of a series of Riviera robberies committed in his style. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis D: Alfred Hitchcock. C 106m. LBX CC |
| 8:00 PM | The Grand Illusion (1937) French POWs fight to escape their German captors during World War I. Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Gabin. D: Jean Renoir. BW 113m. |
| 11:30 PM | Sunset Boulevard (1950) A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star. Gloria Swanson, William Holden, Erich Von Stroheim. D: Billy Wilder. BW 110m. CC |
| 6:00 PM | The Grand Illusion (1937) French POWs fight to escape their German captors during World War I. Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Jean Gabin. D: Jean Renoir. BW 113m. |
| 12:00 AM | Nosferatu (1922) In this silent film, a beautiful woman risks her life to end a vampire's plague of death and pestilence. Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schroder. D: F.W. Murnau. 89m. |
| 11:15 AM | Red Dust (1932) A plantation overseer in Indochina is torn between a married woman and a lady of the evening. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor. D: Victor Fleming. BW 83m. CC |
| 12:45 PM | Mogambo (1953) In this remake of Red Dust, an African hunter is torn between a lusty showgirl and a married woman. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly. D: John Ford. C 116m. CC DVS |
| 7:00 AM | Animal Crackers (1930) Three zanies try to recover a stolen painting during a madcap house party. The Marx Brothers, Lillian Roth, Margaret Dumont. D: Victor Heerman. BW 97m. CC |
| 9:00 AM | The Bank Dick (1940) When he foils two robberies in one day, the town drunkard is hired to guard the local bank. W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel. D: Edward Cline. BW 72m. CC |
