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Early has been a faculty member in the departments of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University since 1982. He has also authored five books on blacks in America, one of which won the 1994 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism...
...that gays are as ubiquitous on television as Law & Order spin-offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein...
...Britain, Auntie, as the network is known, is the nation's high-minded public broadcaster, 81 years old and going strong with award-winning news, documentaries, dramas and comedies. It has long snubbed crass commerce and does not run ads on its two flagship channels. Its revenue model: every household with a telly must pay the British government a "license fee" of nearly $200 a year to fund the BBC, which adds up to a $4.5 billion annual subsidy. Americans would probably dump their sets in the Boston harbor if Washington forced them to spend that kind of money...
Memo to those who compile the Ken Dryden Award (best goaltender in the ECAC) watch list: keep your eyes on Crimson goaltenders junior Dov Grumet-Morris and sophomore John Daigneau...
Everyone’s come to expect this from Balestracci, but Everett assumed the Buchanan Award finalist’s role so many times yesterday that the public address announcer was having a tough time keeping the twosome straight. And you felt bad for him, because they did kind of start to look alike...