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...sign on it, advertising an upcoming play at Dudley House. The Poland Spring jug is empty. The freezer has bags of ice and two lonely containers of sherbet. Hungry grad students would fare no better in a fridge raid. The massive fridge’s shelves contain nothing except two half-empty Sprite bottles and a huge bowl of coffee creamers ready to fill the coffee cups of stressed graduate students. “Some people might like to add a coffee machine—and a piano to replace the one we had to give back...
...sunbathers. Even the most dour students have found themselves tempted outside, content to forget work for a few hours and dedicate themselves to the wholesome pursuit of melanoma. After all, there could be few places more beautiful to lie outside than in the middle of Harvard Yard—except when it is barricaded off for fertilization—or down on the grassy banks of the Charles...
...teen-centricism of the show was exaggerated by the fact that “90210” had no parents as cast members except for Jim and Cindy Walsh. As a result, the teens had to turn to friends for advice, companionship and rides in the absence of supportive parents. Brandon constantly took responsibility for Dylan, his alcoholic best friend, and for Steve, the spoiled rich “kid” (Ian Ziering, the actor who played Steve, was over a decade older than his character) who often didn’t know what was best for him, thanks...
Ronald Mallett: My father, who I love very deeply, died of a heart attack at 33. I was 10 years old and completely devastated. I think I would have become a depressed child, except that I found hope in the idea of time travel. H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine was like a saving for me. I became obsessed with the idea of traveling back in time so that I could save my father. He smoked heavily and lived life too fully, I suppose. An interesting coincidence is that he died in 1955—the same year that...
Celine Dion begins a three-year gig at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next year. She should be right at home in the city of Siegfried & Roy. Dion doesn't make anything disappear except albums--140 million sold worldwide--but like the strangely tanned lion tamers, she specializes in providing big, mainstream entertainment with a chimerical twist...