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...single Broadway revival since its original run ended in 1954. The show was, I suspect, considered too much of its time - adapted from James Michener?s bestselling, but now largely forgotten, stories of the American occupation in the South Pacific during World War II. Fans and producers seemed content to leave the show consigned to memory, like a favorite family vacation spot that you?re afraid to revisit because it may have gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Pacific is Back on Broadway...Finally | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Indeed, it seems to me the film works better as a comic love story than it does as a sports epic. In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans. The players are simple jocks, content with playing a game of few, loosely enforced rules. But as attention shifts from locker rooms to board rooms, where the real struggle for control of the game's bright, yet much more respectable, future is waged, Leatherheads loses some of its formerly merry ways. It wants to make the case that there is more fun - maybe more simple humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leatherheads: For the Love of Football | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...barrels like scotch, and it has a vintage year, like a Bordeaux. It is also unbelievably delicious--like a port flavored with malt and a touch of bite from the hops, and somehow light, complex and free of any alcohol sting, despite having six times as much alcohol content as a regular can of brew. It was better than most $100 wines I've tasted. I shared it with three people, all equally ready to make fun of it, and they each wanted to know where they could buy it for a gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet Groceries — for More! | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...stretch to say that the popularity of “Weeds” and “Californication” signal some sort of monumental sea change in the qualities television viewers value in their sitcom characters, or in the type and quality of content that will be produced in the future. But it is clear that at least one network has begun to do something completely different in their programming. In my book, that’s a good thing.—Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drugs, Dirty Deeds Spell Success For Showtime | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...hopefully make a public sector career seem more manageable in terms of debt resolution. By combating the pay disparity between such jobs and more lucrative corporate opportunities, this new tuition aid commendably “levels the field,” allowing students to be motivated more by the content of their careers than by pay scales...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Lightening the Load | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

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