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...instead of saying anything clever about Matt Groening's brilliance, I'd like to look at the Simpsons' relationship to the Fox network. What makes the Simpsons so funny, at the most basic level, is that they are losers. Given an opportunity to screw-up--lose a million-dollar law suit, lose a bet, louse up on the job, fail at school--the Simpsons, at least Bart and Homer, will almost invariably come through. No matter how stupid our children are at school, they will never match Bart. No matter how badly we do our jobs, Homer does his worse...
SESSIONS (HBO, debuting Oct. 6, 10:10 p.m. EDT). A 42-year-old husband and father (Michael McKean) discusses his sexual fantasies and mid-life neuroses with a sympathetic shrink (Elliott Gould). Billy Crystal created and co-wrote this offbeat comedy series, which is frank and frequently clever, though a bit mushy at the center...
...what route should I take? Now I just go there." On the other hand, he says, since converting, he no longer has the dreams that in the past would presage a successful hunt. He also laments that fewer and fewer of the young learn the art of creating the clever, flowery songs that used to commemorate visits and noteworthy events...
Nonetheless, the traditional structure of public education, where students are assigned to schools by fiat, is under a sustained assault. The Bush plan perhaps should be regarded as a clever White House effort to put its imprimatur on a popular rebellion that was already reshaping educational policy from the grass roots up. Local school bureaucracies are already under siege from a variety of forces -- innovative Governors, activist courts, maverick educators and aroused parents...
Indeed, the new dean is exuberant, witty and at ease in the corner office of University Hall. After only two months at the Faculty helm, Knowles has developed quite a reputation: his colleagues and associates say he never fails to charm entire meetings with a clever quip or humorous tale...