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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
PROFESSOR MITCHELL ' THE KING IS BACK [Harvard Crimson] Students still searching for that perfect gut should head to the Carpenter Center today at 1 p.m. for round two of “American Film Criticism” with visiting lecturer Elvis Mitchell, who regaled students last year by drinking with Bill Murray during class and assigning no reading for the entire course. Last semester “Professor” Mitchell went from star film critic at The New York Times to, as Larry Summers characterized him in an interview last spring, “Who?” How far will he fall this time around? If the first class is any indication, pretty fucking far. Our spies report that, true to form, the dreadlocked critic delivered a threadbare syllabus and a rambling lecture on “pretty much whatever he felt like talking about.” Added another attendee, “Pootie Tang may or may not have been mentioned three times.” ' --------------------------------------------------------------- (UD's father-in-law, you may recall [see UD, 1/22/05], had to work hard to convince Le Corbusier to build the Carpenter Center [UD, 12/24/04] at Harvard. Corbu would be proud.) |