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...programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with his pants around his ankles...
...Show!"), leaves the viewer wondering why Leno was loyal to her for so long. Similarly, the NBC executives are too wimpy and stupid to be believed. In one scene, Leno eavesdrops on a speakerphone conversation between network executives discussing his fate. Later he phones program chief Warren Littlefield (Bob Balaban) to reveal what he knows. Littlefield, who takes the call on the toilet, jumps up in panic. Showing a network executive with his pants around his ankles may get a cheap laugh, but is this any way for a grownup movie...
...inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...
...Evan S. Balaban, assistant professor of biology, said there is precedent for physiological differences which correlate to differences in behavior. For example, Balaban said, patterns of singing in birds have been linked to structural differences in the brains of various animals, much as structural differences in humans may be linked to differences in sexual orientation
Among the speakers are Richard Pillard, professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School; Simon Levay, from the Institute of Gay and Lesbian Studies in California; and Evan S. Balaban, assistant professor of biology at Harvard...