Elliott Smith passes away at 34
Last week, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, most famous for his brand of dark folk-rock music, was found dead in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 34. He died of a stab wound to the chest, an apparent suicide.
Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of The Dartmouth's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query.
75 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
Last week, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, most famous for his brand of dark folk-rock music, was found dead in his home in Los Angeles at the age of 34. He died of a stab wound to the chest, an apparent suicide.
Sitting in Lindy's Diner in downtown Keene, N.H., about an hour from Hanover, Alec Doyle has two hours to grab a bite to eat before trying to prove once and for all that you can go home again. In Los Angeles for the last 20 years, directing and producing in television, film and theater, Doyle has returned to his hometown.
If there is one man in show business who can claim he's seen and done it all, Skitch Henderson is that man. Most famous for having been the first musical director on the "The Tonight Show," he has played piano for a laundry list of legends.
To be the drummer of one of America's most popular rock bands is a claim that few people can make. Rarer still is the claim to have been the drummer of one of America's most popular rock bands, and then lose that gig only to join what might be the most popular rock band in America. However, such is the story of Matt Cameron, whose driving beats have provided the engine first for Soundgarden and then for Pearl Jam.
Most people don't get the opportunity to attend their own wake. As Jeff Goldblum so famously noted in "The Big Chill," "they throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come." However, Warren Zevon's wake lasted for several months, and he was there for every day of it as he recorded his final album "The Wind."
Before the big ceremony Sunday on the Green signifying the lifting of "undergrad" status from the shoulders of graduating seniors, the graduate schools will send some of its students out into the professional world Saturday with the Tuck and Thayer School's Investiture ceremonies and Dartmouth Medical School's Class Day.
Class of 2003, is there anything that we can tell you in this short space that you don't already know?
Since making a documentary-style short for "Saturday Night Live" about a male synchronized swimming team, Christopher Guest has become the master of a genre of film that has come to be known as the mockumentary. But Guest has never been comfortable with that term, saying in a recent interview with Rolling Stone, "I hope that what people get out of this is a view of human behavior."
Most proposals for senior theses consist of several pages of thorough explanation, research and planning. Alexis McGuinness '03 and Deborah Meschan '03 had four roman numerals and one plea: "Trust us."
On their 1977 sales-record shattering album "Rumours," Fleetwood Mac proclaimed, "I'm never going back again."
By Lindsay Barnes and Carl Burnett
Maurice Rapf '35 may be best known at Dartmouth for his role in founding both the Film Studies department and the Dartmouth Film Society. But prior to his teaching career, Rapf was a prolific screenwriter working in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s.
In explaining his recent musical explorations outside of jazz, master of the saxophone David Murray explained that, "It comes mostly out of being bored in New York. How many times can you play the Vanguard? There's got to be something more out there."
Filmmaker John O'Brien has always found his hometown of Tunbridge, Vt. to be good surroundings not only for living, but also for making movies. O'Brien has made three films known as the Tunbridge Trilogy in which his friends and neighbors play themselves as part of a larger story.
So just who are The Minus Five, and what's their beef with Wilco?
Billed as a light comedy, "View from the Top" is the latest in a genre I like to call "diet comedy." Like light cream cheese or low-fat chips, diet comedy bears somewhat of a resemblance to actual comedy, but it's watered-down and not nearly as enjoyable. In other words, "View from the Top" places greater emphasis on the "light" than the "comedy," and the result is that the movie is pleasant but boring and utterly forgettable.
You'd better watch out, you'd better not cry, you'd better not pout, I'm telling you why: Lewis Black is coming to town, and if he catches you doing any of the above he's going to make you pay.
It seems appropriate that among her numerous roles throughout her acting career, Liv Rooth '03 once played Cinderella in a 2001 production of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Into the Woods."
"I give no credence to the lines that divide styles of music," Chick Corea said after his concert in Spaulding Auditorium last term. The jazz fusion legend might find some kindred spirits in Calexico.
Valentine's Day always seems to stir rather strong feelings in people. Be it the joy of being in the arms of someone you love or the sadness of being alone on a day celebrating couplehood, it will be hard to stay emotionally indifferent tomorrow. Thankfully, love -- and love lost -- have been favorite topics of songwriters for centuries. So while people's sentiments will run the gamut tomorrow, thankfully there's a song for everyone.