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...estate satire 12 Miles of Bad Road next year. In FX's drama The Riches--about a con artist who moves to a gated community and passes himself off as a real estate lawyer--the buying and selling of land comes to stand for American dreams, appetites and origins. Creator Dmitry Lipkin says the pilot was shot in an exurb 40 minutes from New Orleans. "Everything around it was swampland," he recalls, "and in the middle of it was this very orderly chunk of land carved out for development." The setting, he says, captured the "quintessentially American" situation of building...
...highly anticipated--and ultimately ambiguous-- finale of The Sopranos piqued so many fans that their furious commenting crashed HBO's website. But series creator David Chase told N.J.'s STAR-LEDGER that the ending was clear: "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting or adding to what is there. Anybody who wants to watch it, it's all there." SCORE...
Though a number of Class Day speakers have in recent history been comedians—such as Al Franken ’73 in 2002, Will Ferrell in 2003, Sacha Baron Cohen in 2004, and “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane last year—although this is a recent trend...
...college, Henson, the daughter of “The Muppets” creator Jim Henson, achieved fame as the first female president of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. She went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest and youngest movie moguls, the president of Columbia Pictures in 1993, a producer for her own firm, a former member of the University’s second-highest governing board, and one of the chief executives of her family’s business...
...Christianity to promote their cause. The Civil Rights movement that was incubated in black churches in the South used the same Christian texts as Senator Robert Byrd, who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of the “Curse of Ham.” The same creator who gave us “inalienable rights” has yet to extend those rights to same-sex marriages. Historically as Americans, we have used religion to comfort many in the midst of tragedy at certain times, and to cause tragedy for some at other times. Assigning blame...