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...Lemon, head writer of The Girlie Show, a decently rated, woman-oriented sketch show. Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), an executive at NBC's corporate parent General Electric who made his career selling GE ovens, decides it needs more male viewers. So he forces Liz to hire Tracy Jordan (SNL alum Tracy Morgan), a wild and (literally) crazy comic who has starred in such Wayansesque hit movies as Who Dat Ninja? and Black Cop, White Cop ("One does the duty. One gets the booty"). Soon the show has been retitled TGS with Tracy Jordan, and Liz is left running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do Not Adjust Your Set | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...Brown,” Simmons told The Herald in a subsequent interview. “I was just saying that I was very happy and satisfied to be at Brown and that I could think of no better job. I think I even conceded as a Harvard alum that that was a perfectly respectable place and I wish them the best as they search for a president. I look forward to welcoming that person as a fellow president...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brown Chief Says No to Harvard | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Jessica Simpson, famous newlywed turned famous divorc, has no such ambitions for A Public Affair. Simpson owes her career to the MTV reality show she did with her ex, boy-band alum Nick Lachey, and her album is an unapologetic bit of celebrity striptease. For starters, there are the title and some Jackie Collins-- quality liner notes ("I believe in fantasy, but no longer do I believe in fairytales"). Simpson's voice is blandly likable, but she overemotes so much that you can't fail to deduce whom she's talking about on I Don't Want to Care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to my Bubble | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

Patrick Bateman is smoking hot. He’s doing loads of cocaine. He’s wielding a chainsaw. And he’s a Harvard alum...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard ‘Psycho’ Kills 30-40 | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

Merrill Lynch analyst Stanislav Shpigelman pleaded guilty last Friday to providing Harvard alum Eugene M. Plotkin ’00 and David Pajcin insider information in a plot that allegedly earned the pair $6.7 million illegally, according to the Associated Press...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shpigelman Pleads Guilty to Insider-Trading; Indicates That Plotkin ’00 ‘Pressured’ Him To Participate | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

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