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...gets plenty of buffeting at the high school where he teaches drama. He's adored by two misfit students, the gushing Epiphany Sellars (Phoebe Strobe) and the not-yet-aware-of-his-own-gayness Rand Posin (Skylar Astin). The other kids, including a bunch of Latinos bused in from another school, treat Dana with loud contempt, and the principal is ready and eager to close down the Drama Department, i.e. Dana. His grand idea has been to stage productions of old hit movies - Erin Brockovich played by teens - which are routinely panned by the local critic, another student...
...humans need sentiment too. TV critics may bemoan the "fakeness" of some reality or nature shows. But as viewers, we depend on that manipulation to provide the order, sense and purpose that the universe fails to. "Behind the desert's great beauty," as narrator Sean Astin says just before the camera pans to Mozart's body, "lies a frightening indifference for life...
...education because it allows students to interact with and learn from fellow students from other cultures and with different life experiences. A number of studies have found that diversity can produce these tangible results. According to Mitchell J. Chang, an associate dean at Loyola Marymount University, and Alexander W. Astin, director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, a diverse campus environment “contributes to the student’s academic development, satisfaction with college, level of cultural awareness, and commitment to promoting racial understanding,” and is also associated with higher student GPAs...
Death pool time! Okay, we knew one of the survivors was gonna die on this episode. I’d put money on Charlie, because I figure with Sean Astin coming to “24” in January, it’s dangerous to have two hobbits in primetime. The episode ended up being Shannon-centric. I like Shannon. She’s so pretty. Unlike Evangeline Lilly or Michelle Rodriguez, I don’t feel like she could beat the bloody pulp out of me. Shannon is on a mission to find Walt, because he keeps...
...friend, I have to say that the whole setup seems awfully familiar. I mean, back at WJM in Minneapolis we had pompous Ted Baxter; now you've got pompous Ed LaSalle (John Astin), the womanizing theater critic. At least Ted was a comic type--the featherbrained anchorman--that everybody could recognize. This LaSalle fellow doesn't make sense. He comes on as a Broadway blusterer, yet claims he never goes to "commercial pap" like Cats and Dreamgirls. Then what's he doing writing for a blue-collar tabloid? Your other co-workers are more credible. Your boss (James Farentino) seems...