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More abstract and worrisome is the overall message the shows send: that life is an elimination contest, that difference means discord. The Real World is a sort of teen-friendly Adam-and-Eve story--seven young people, set up in a coolly furnished paradise, are bound to screw it up. Survivor and Big Brother change the reference from Genesis to Lord of the Flies and No Exit. But if what they show can be ugly, it's insulting to the audience to assume viewers must take this as a model for life--that's like saying Chinatown is an immoral...
This statement is worrisome. Here, in the age of Adam Sandler, is an actor opposed to bathroom humor. There's another dilemma. Asked about the lack of choice roles for black actors, Wright pauses. "If there's a positive for actors of color, it's that there are so many undiscovered stories from our perspective," he says. Some of those stories will fill a screenplay he's writing based on inner-city kids he grew up with; this could mean that Wright will make some noise...
...Adam A. Sofen '01, a Crimson executive, is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. This summer he is writing greeting cards and gift books in Berkeley, Calif...
...Adam A. Sofen '01 is a history and literature concentrator in Pforzheimer House. He is a news executive who heads the comp, The Crimson's training program for new reporters...
...three principal Sonnenschein heirs are all played by Ralph Fiennes. The first of them, Ignatz, changes his name to Sors, in order to advance his career as a judge faithfully serving the empire. He ends up bitter and betrayed. His son Adam abandons his religion in order to join the right fencing club. He becomes an Olympic gold medalist, but--in the film's most haunting sequence--dies in a concentration camp denying his lost Judaism. His son Ivan becomes a communist bureaucrat, then revolts against that totalitarianism. The picture ends virtually as the century does, with Ivan melting into...