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...Irish,’ and expect half a million people to come,” Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 says. What they aren’t trying to do, according to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, is condescend. “The way we plan on talking to people is as artists, artists to audience,” she says...
...Ramon says of his experience, and we understand what he means—to varying degrees we have all been the one laying on the bed. Wisely, the filmmakers understand that there is no life without some element of suffering and in accepting this truth, they never condescend to their characters no matter how ridiculous their actions may sometimes seem...
Finally, the show works because it doesn't condescend. Hwang confesses that Flower Drum Song was always a guilty pleasure: for all its stereotypes, it portrayed the Asian experience as no show had before and few have since. "Many things about it remain revolutionary today," says Hwang. "You don't see on TV or movie screens in American pop culture a romance between an Asian man and an Asian woman. I'm still amazed by the fact that there was a Flower Drum Song." And we should be amazed that this Song is back in tune. --With reporting by AmyLennard...
...York-New Jersey area, offers Greasy Kid Stuff, with the husband-and-wife team Hova Najarian and Belinda Miller as hosts. The show, which airs on Saturday mornings, is directed at children ages 6 to 11 and features an eclectic mix of music that doesn't condescend to kids (its unofficial motto: No Raffi Ever). The Greasy playlist roams from rockabilly to lullabies, from the funky rock group Yo La Tengo to classic Elvis. "We felt like the kid stuff out there was pretty bland. There was no sense of the alternative," says Miller. "It's definitely a little nutty...
...were the first hearings for high stakes played with no rules. The proceedings felt to Thomas like "a high-tech lynching," to Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must-see TV. Hill said Thomas was a frequent consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually suggestive remarks. It is moot whether that constituted sexual harassment. But Republicans, by their vociferous denials...