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Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
...Creator David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal) is no stranger to provocative, zeitgeisty premises, and in theory this slick private-eye series is a Lewinsky-era doozy: privacy-invading, sexy investigations by sexy investigators using high-tech, extra-constitutional means. But he's done little more with it yet than find excuses to get his babe-licious P.I.s into halter tops and hooker outfits, a setup spiced up with Moonlighting-style banter between Gina Gershon and Paula Marshall. Gershon's sneering, sex-as-a-weapon swagger is an asset, but the product so far is predictable, sometimes amusing eye candy...
DIED. HARRY CRANE, 85, stand-up comedian turned screenwriter and co-creator of The Honeymooners; in Los Angeles. In a 50-year career, Crane made jokes for the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and others, including Robert F. Kennedy...
...popular "Shuttleboy" program, which allows students to get the three next shuttle arrival times at favorite points around campus, is now up and running again, its creator announced yesterday over a Pforzheimer House e-mail list...
Shuttleboy's creator, David J. Malan '99, wrote the program for his friends last fall, but the service soon gained campus-wide popularity. Available by typing "shuttleboy" or "sb" at the fas prompt in telnet, it lists the next three times different shuttle routes will pick up at points around campus...