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Leading liberal arts universities around the country—including Yale, Princeton, Georgetown and Stanford—have renowned drama programs, in which students can receive a Bachelor of Arts in Drama or Theater. Without providing students a definite program in performance arts, how many Jodie Fosters (Yale ’85) or David E. Kelleys (Princeton ’87) is Harvard losing to other schools with a theater concentration...
...Bachelor of Arts degree in dramatic arts traditionally focuses on the academic exploration of theater, in comparison to a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree, which is more performance and conservatory-based. Merenda has heard that “the new concentration in drama would be very academic-based, which I think is completely normal. I hope it makes people realize how silly it was not to have a concentration anyways...
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...moved on to unlikable, self-tortured Californians. In his latest film, Sideways, opening Friday, the director and his longtime writing partner Jim Taylor turned a novel by Rex Pickett into a quirky movie about a failed writer and a C-list actor who go on a weeklong wine-tasting bachelor party through the vineyards near Santa Barbara. Paul Giamatti plays the novelist, who is deeply in love with wine and deeply in hatred with the rest of the world. It's a quiet, sad, beautiful story about how ego obstructs work and love. And it contains the best joke about...
...viewers did watch--more than 20 million an episode--particularly women, who made up 63% of the adult audience in the first two weeks. So it's hard not to see the show's success as a comment on TV, and maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan--one area of TV targeted to women--are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids...