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...American take at the show's use of the G word. For example,a similar controversy arose over portrayals of Italian-Americans with The Sopranos. But while many were assuaged because they felt HBO's award-winning series was artful, they see Jersey Shore as just ugly. Says Gina Barreca, an English professor at the University of Connecticut who edited a collection of essays called A Sitdown with The Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked About Series: "The Sopranos is like Shakespeare and Tony Soprano is King Lear. The trouble is, a show like Jersey Shore...
...president, current Dean of the BU School of Medicine and renowned cardiologist Aram V. Chobanian will assume duties as interim president. Chobanian has been a faculty member at the BU Medical School for 40 years and Dean of the Medical School for 15 years. According to Christopher Barreca, chair of the Board of Trustees, “the Board has full confidence in [Chobanian’s] ability as a leader, a teacher and a bridge builder...
...State University of New York, Buffalo, very sensibly notes, "It's a dramatic piece, not a ((literal)) description of what's going on in our society. It seems to me that drama is supposed to make things larger than life so you get the point." Agrees Regina Barreca, who teaches English at the University of Connecticut and is the author of They Used to Call Me Snow White but I Drifted, a book about women and humor: "It has got to be seen not as a cultural representation but as a fairy tale." In other words, as a dream work...
...There's a real reversal going on," says Regina Barreca, an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut and the author of two books on female humor. "Women's comedy used to be local and specific -- 'Oh, look at my hair, look at my legs, I'm so fat.' Now male humor seems to be taking a step back to 'Take my wife -- please,' and women comics seem to be much more subversive...
Boosler's kind of routine, as Professor Barreca sees it, is one thing that tends to separate the girls from the boys. "Women tell stories," she says. "Men do one, two, three, bop." The new funnywomen are anything but rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail...