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...spas while the husbands played golf," Berg says. Now the men, driven to stay fit and attractive and to reward themselves for years of hard work, are enjoying everything from manicures to mud baths. "The stigma is gone," says Kirwan Rockefeller, a social and behavioral scientist and co-creator of the certificate program in spa and hospitality management at the University of California at Irvine. "[The TV show] Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has done a lot toward reassuring men that it is O.K. to get a massage...
...helpful program replied, “I’m glad to help. :-)” After repeated inquiries from The Crimson, the program ceased to spit back computerized responses and agreed to conduct an instant-message interview—but not to divulge his or her name. The creator, who conceived of the idea after learning about Shuttleboybot, wrote the script for YummyFoodBot in a programming language called Perl. The YummyFoodBot program looks for patterns in the messages that it receives. For more complex queries—such as a request for a menu several days away?...
Freshmen frustration with the bell’s schedule has led to the creation of a group on facebook.com called “Students For the Destruction of the 8:40 Bell.” In its description, creator Lily G. Bellow ’09, a resident of Weld Hall, writes: “Damn you, bell. Damn...
That's when Marco Pennette, the creator of the show, informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...
Jack Kenny, Daniel's creator, says he set out to tell the story of "a family man, a regular guy who's trying to do good." Making his protagonist a priest raised the dramatic and moral stakes. "A priest's family is supposed to be perfect," he says, "so anything anybody does wrong becomes heightened." As for adding Jesus to the ensemble, he says he did it not for shock value but as an outgrowth of what he was taught growing up as a Catholic (he now considers himself Christian but belongs to no church): that one should have...