Anthony Slide spoke on “Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age” at Hillsdale College for the fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar of the academic year on Billy Wilder. Slide is the editor of “It’s the Pictures that Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age.” He is a former associate archivist of...
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant, and a bastard.” This is how Billy Wilder described his role in 1960, the year of “The Apartment,” for which he won three Academy Awards as not only director, but also producer and screenwriter. Anthony Lane from The New Yorker wrote of Wilder’s...
Students, faculty, and college visitors will gather in Phillips Auditorium for four days starting Sunday for this year’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives. But what does that mean? The title is clunky and bureaucratic. No one calls it that. Even the event posters shorten it to CCA. The Center for Constructive Alternatives does not mean...
There seems to be a lot of sex, drugs, and rock and roll on campus. Oh wait, it’s just this year’s third Center for Constructive Alternatives on the sixties. The problem with the CCA isn’t the drugs or the music or the talk about sex and big government. The lectures are interesting and informative, but...
Mary Eberstadt spoke at Hillsdale College this week for the Center for Constructive Alternatives lecture series on the 1960s, where she spoke on “Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution.” A senior research fellow at the Faith and Reason Institute and graduate of Cornell University, Eberstadt is an American essayist and novelist whose pieces have appeared in...