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I love this! I'm guessing that's latin luck (the same in Spanish!)?
Assistant #1 says when she was in college (at a pretty big state school) she was struggling to find interesting gen ed classes to fulfill her course requirements and eventually signed up for a course called "Art History of the Cinema". The professor was this cute, unassuming, older man who always brought his dog Lana to class with him and who held all of his classes in the big performance hall on campus, lecturing from the stage. In this class he would drip in pieces of his lore from time to time, like that he was a Vaudeville performer as a child in the 1950s, well after the prominent era of Vaudeville, but still in adjacent circles to other performers like musicians and actors. He even did a Vaudeville style tap routine for us on the last day of class.
Assistant #1 quickly became obsessed with him and ended up taking all of his undergraduate courses, including "The Classical Ideal in 1930's Art" and "Introduction to Roman Art and Archeology". She remembers learning about the Arena de Nîmes! Ironically, she would have added a Classics minor, except she didn't want to have to take the required Latin.
Another favorite piece of lore he dropped was on a day he got up on stage and said that he had some sort of respiratory infection and wouldn't be able to lecture that day, but he had brought a documentary to show instead. It ended up being a BBC documentary about him and his archeological work studying malaria and its impacts on the fall of Rome. Casual. 1 reply
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