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...charms rather than as a dispassionate historian, and the approach yields mixed results. His interviews are revealing, but the portraits of Sesame Street's creators can be hagiographic and the language breathless: at one point, he describes the observation that television could be harnessed for educational purposes as a "flash of brilliance that struck like a bolt from the gods." Still, some things are worth gushing over. And this meticulous story of a program that TIME anointed in 1970 as "not only the best children's show in TV history [but also] one of the best parents' shows [ever...
Back in 2004, the online humor site JibJab released what turned out to be the viral video hit of the George W. Bush-John Kerry election cycle. Set to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land," JibJab's "This Land!", was a Flash-animated satire that took every stereotype about the two candidates and made them even more stereotypical...
Less furious GRANDMASTER FLASH to release first album in decades. Now only slightly miffed...
...News flash for pre-meds: There’s no need to give up those voice lessons and tap shoes in exchange for a stethoscope just yet. This year marked the 102nd Harvard Medical School Annual Second-Year Show, in which nearly half the class of second-year students in the medical and dental schools write, direct, design, and star in an original musical that features impersonations of their professors. According to student/performer Adam R. Donnell, it is “expected” of students to be in the show. In this year’s show...
...told Ed. "I couldn't even afford to lend the money to Ray Bradbury, 'cause it was one dollar a plate. Of course no food, you understand, just a dollar for a plate." Forry wore the spaceman outfit around the city, attracting cries of "Buck Rogers!" and "Flash Gordon!" from local children. He added: "They had an Esperanto convention, the artificial language, which I know. ... So I was in this futuristic costume and I went up and explained in Esperanto that I was a time traveler from the future...