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...plot or help the central characters grow without sticking around long enough to grow themselves. Now, with her role in Glee - which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination and helped clinch an ensemble win for Best TV Series (Comedy or Musical) - Lynch has been nudged firmly into the spotlight, whether she likes...
...real life she’s the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (referred to as simply G&S by members and fans), a staple group in the theater scene here at Harvard. Although the Hasty Pudding tends to steal the spotlight in the spring, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players are one of the foremost G&S troupes in New England, dedicating themselves to cycling through the comic-operas in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. This spring, the Players are putting on a production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” a wild...
...talk show host is asked to fulfill the difficult function of flavor enhancer: he (or she) must make even the most dreadfully boring of guests look good, keeping the interview funny without taking over the spotlight. What brings the job to a complexity far beyond that of daytime interviewers is that the result is expected to be consistently hilarious, not just mildly amusing to a few hundred thousand viewers who haven’t had their coffee yet. This balancing act requires no less than a profound bond with the audience: the host must be eminently likeable...
...There is also no doe-eyed Meg Ryan to distract from the excitement of The Doors’ ride to fame. Dicillo’s documentary also lacks the exaggerated flamboyance that pervades Stone’s adaptation. Instead of making it seem that Morrison was born in the spotlight, DiCillo offers a very candid perspective, effectively highlighting Morrison’s metamorphosis from a shy, unsure singer to the wild performer who became conditioned to relish attention...
...bachelor’s, women made up less than a quarter of the tenured faculty at 10 of Harvard’s 13 primary divisions, with exceptions coming only in the humanities, divinity, and education. That January, Harvard’s then-President Lawrence H. Summers shone an inadvertent spotlight on the issue by delivering a now-infamous speech suggesting “innate” gender differences as a possible explanation for the scant number of female scientists and mathematicians at the top of their fields. The firestorm these comments generated put pressure on Harvard and its embattled leader...