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...played a doofus Carson, a smug buffoon. "Please," he said during his nine-minute opening monologue, "hold your applause until it's for me." Now, we know that the real Steve Martin, whoever that may be, is an art collector and New Yorker humorist. So after Billy Crystal's wisenheimer tumling and Whoopi Goldberg's japes à la Belle Barth, Martin was meant to class the proceedings up a bit. And so he did. He turned Oscar Night into a party he might not mind attending. We give him a B plus for the monologue and an A for apparent...
...Since no one expects the awards themselves to generate much excitement, more depends on the host than ever before, particularly since this year Steve Martin was going to lift the schmaltz-coated fist of Billy Crystal. Martin, who's lately focused on his ar-teest side, writing humor for The New Yorker and plays for the stage, seemed to promise a brainier level of humor. Which, as David Letterman and, more recently, the Grammy's Jon Stewart can attest, you can usually count on to be cruelly rewarded at any L.A. awards show...
Kuusisto played a major role as Harvard's backup goaltender on the 1999 team that won the national championship in Minneapolis. When Crystal Springer '00 re-injured herself in the national semifinals against Brown, Kuusisto started the national championship game against New Hampshire, which Harvard won 6-5 in overtime...
...Feigenbaum takes over the third base spot that was held by Crystal Springer '00, who is now an assistant hockey coach at Princeton...
...sponsored a sold-out dance party that attracted 1,200 people, including parents, teenagers and even younger children. The aim was to provide something with the feel of a rave party but without the drug scene that goes with it. Then again, the main stage attraction was the band Crystal Method, whose name is an obvious pun on crystal meth, the amphetamine-based party drug. "A band can call itself what it wants to call itself," says Robert Santelli, deputy director of public programs at EMP. Which is true, of course. But the adults who offer the band to kids...