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Thus, the play’s creators set out with an unenviable task: create a musical about the best novel about music, find an actor to match the classic lovable jerk who is Cusack’s trademark, and craft scenes that evoke such pathos as Black??s finale performance of “Let’s Get it On.” The play’s book, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, abridges and bastardizes Hornby’s work; the cast, directed by Walter Bobbie, lacks any semblance of vocal or acting talent...
...righteous two-part harmony for upwards of five years now—have been compelled to lower my, err, their expectations a little for the upcoming feature film “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.” Given the near-100 percent awfulness rate of Black??s recent movie career, the new film seemed destined for failure...
...writers, and producers to be guests in the workshop this year. “Most serious musicians rehearse for hours every day. So if you want to be a writer and you’re serious about it, you write for hours every day.” Last night, Black??s two-hour seminar featured Richard Dreyfuss, who was a star in “Jaws” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and John Debilles, who has written for “Seinfeld?...
...things bear consideration in any discussion of diversity on this campus. First, as important an issue as it is, its direness is occasionally overstated. In my time on this campus, one in five presidents of the Dems has been black??that’s not a huge number, but at 20% it’s significantly higher than the percentage of black students on this campus. Further, women play important leadership roles in a range of organizations, even though men more often serve as president...
...Moore said. The JBHE also reported that graduation rates can be bolstered by race-sensitive admissions procedures and large black campus communities, and lowered by science-heavy curricula. However, Harvard—which does not explicitly take race into account for admissions decisions and is about 9 percent black??has still maintained a high rate. The JBHE looked to Carnegie Mellon University—with its science-heavy curriculum and 65 percent black graduation rate—to support its claim that a school’s curriculum can affect graduation rates. The President and Vice President...