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...know by now the problems with major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer possible for a new drama to get tens of millions of viewers to sit down on their couches and watch the same thing at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mentalist: CBS's Psychic Friend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...Mike O'Donnell is his high school's star point guard. (It is the persistent delusion of Efron movies that a 5-ft. 9-in. white kid would be coveted by college scouts - for the basketball team, not the drama department.) As the big game begins, Mike learns from his girlfriend Scarlet that she is pregnant. Stunned, he leaves the court, feeling his duty is his destiny. Flash-forward 20 years and the cheers have faded. Mike (Perry) has lost his job; Scarlet (Leslie Mann) has told him she wants a divorce; his teenage kids, son Alex (Sterling Knight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zac Efron: The Tweens' Dream | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...they were hopeful that Jehn would be able to help the program overcome many of its long-standing struggles and expressed optimism about the future of the program.“I came into the department with some trepidation about the department not being respected or there being internal drama, but by the time I got there I didn’t find any,” said D’Cruz, who began teaching Expos this year. “No one feels like they are being shortchanged or hurt, and I think [Dr. Jehn] has been a really...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Search, Expos Awaits Changes | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...that was enough to keep Earth neck-and-neck with the weekend's prestige drama debut, the true-life male weepie The Soloist, which grossed $9.7 million. Retelling the story (already aired on 60 Minutes) of a homeless, schizophrenic cellist befriended by a Los Angeles Times columnist, it's the sort of serioso uplifter that usually gets released in December and garners major awards. Its stars have been in aisle seats on Oscar Night: Jamie Foxx as the musician, Robert Downey, Jr., as the newspaperman. But The Soloist was pulled from a late-year release, to be dumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Box Office Obsessed with Beyoncé | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

...Greek classic with our own interpretations,” says Catherine A. Morris ’11, the costume designer. “It’s supposed to capture the risqué effect it would have had on Greek audiences, because it is shocking—this drama is about a war between men and women, and there is a lot of sexual tension and overt sexual references,” says Morris, who is also a Crimson contributing writer. “Lysistrata” was chosen, in part, to address the relative scarcity of plays produced...

Author: By Minji Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Classical Club to Debut ‘Lysistrata’ | 4/26/2009 | See Source »

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