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When I heard that Ellen DeGeneres was going to host the Oscars, I thought, They're sure playing it safe. In 2005 and 2006 the Academy went edgy--well, Oscar edgy--with hosts Chris Rock and Jon Stewart. This year they got likable Ellen, Finding Nemo Ellen, good-natured, dancing Ellen...
...family she characterizes as "post-war jerk." Kominsky Crumb's rejection of America's "jerk" culture becomes the recurring leitmotif of the book. For her, anything jerk involves "sleaziness, out of control materialism, upward striving, tension, financial problems, selfishness and misery." The early chapters gleefully kick over the rock of the American family. One story, "Wiseguys," for example, details her "loser" father's various bottom-feeding money schemes, including a burglar alarm company whose name, "B.A.R.G." he explained was "grab spelled backwards! And our motto is 'grab your money and run!'" Another story tells of how her little brother...
...with successful writers and poets makes the creative thesis even more enticing. Boudreau is recording a collection of her spoken word poetry for her creative thesis. She describes her thesis adviser, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham, as “a rock star in the poetry world.”THE PROFESSORHarvard’s creative writing track offers an equally appealing and elusive opportunity to its teachers. Graham’s status as a full professor is rare among the creative writing faculty, mainly composed of Briggs-Copeland Lecturers on English...
...only one, people might think we actually care about it, and God forbid that might happen.) Irony is the easiest way of doing something without fear of being judged. Irony is safe, and we like safe.Consider the Frat Pack comedies, which regularly spoon-feed ’80s rock songs to young moviegoers. “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” had Asia’s “Heat of the Moment,” “Old School” had Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again...
...clay-like floating orbs abound, and tin foil is king in this distinctly sixth-grade-diorama setting. As supertitles like “target acquired” and “we have an anomaly on the space radar” flash across the screen, band members rock out in low-G. But lest you think this is all fun and games, a red-suited space rogue (played by Pat Mahoney, the band’s drummer), soon arrives to threaten peace and stability on Mother Moon. Murphy and Mahoney duel it out, throwing moon rocks and attacking each other...