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Last week, Stephen B. Cranston ’06 found himself living a Justice essay question, when he arrived in the room of his new Math 21a tutor only to find his Lazy-Boy recliner, which had been stolen from Leverett House storage, adorning the common room. Cranston, however, quickly resolved the moral quandary over whether stealing back one’s own stolen stuff is in fact stealing when his tutor hopped into the Lazy-Boy and then proceeded to demonstrate its seven reclining positions for him. Cranston seized the moment when his tutor stepped away for a bathroom...
...justice was done: Bernie Mac picked up first-year recognition, though his self-titled show should have been recognized over the spinning-its-wheels "Will & Grace" and the living dinosaur "Everybody Loves Raymond." But this year's There Is a God Award goes to the overdue nomination of Bryan Cranston, the funniest physical comic in sitcomland who redefined the bumbling dad for the sensitive-male era on "Malcolm in the Middle...
Cathryn C. Cranston will move up from associate publisher to fill Abernathy’s vacated position...
...male type, the sitcom dad, is changing. The feminist era took us from Father Knows Best to Father Knows Nothing--buffoons like Home Improvement's Tim Taylor and Homer Simpson, whose lunkheaded maleness is their weakness. Now we're seeing dads like Malcolm in the Middle's Hal (Bryan Cranston), a boob but a nurturing one who wears every emotion on his sleeve. On the slight but earnest Danny (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T., starts Sept. 21), Daniel Stern plays a single dad who has just turned 40, is vaguely dissatisfied with life and shares his innermost sentiments with...
DIED. ALAN CRANSTON, 86, four-term California Democratic Senator whose career as a champion of nuclear disarmament was overshadowed by a 1991 Senate reprimand for his involvement in the savings and loan scandals; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. After an early career as a journalist, Cranston returned to the U.S. from Europe and was appalled in 1939 to find sanitized English versions of Hitler's Mein Kampf; he translated his own, unvarnished edition, prompting Hitler's publisher to sue to stop sales...