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...farfetched that a man would forget his own grandson? Sure. But the gag works, because many of us also forgot Ben existed, even though he figured heavily in the sitcom's first two seasons. Jokes on Friends often involve characters' reminding us of basic details about their lives (say, that Monica and Ross are brother and sister) or forgetting details about one another (in Season 7, Chandler gets glasses, and everyone, including his fiance Monica, believes he has always had them). Friends is like that: content to be funny and forgettable. Even the episode titles--"The One Where ..."--suggest that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reconsidering Friends | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...have been as artistically great as NBC says, but it may have been more important than the show itself seemed to believe. If, as the headlines keep screaming, the culture war is not over, for half an hour a week over 10 years, we were able to forget it existed. What else are friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reconsidering Friends | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...Thieves, penned by none other than the queen of pop and mother of two, Madonna. After she secured a deal to publish six children’s stories in 100 countries and 42 languages last summer, the New York Daily News sarcastically told its readers to “forget that her last book was an outrageous and provocative collection of thoughts and semi-porn shots called sex.” With her first children’s book, The English Roses, Madonna was said to “go between the covers again, only this time it?...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: If Celebrities Could Write Books | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...album, though, is the latter-day Johnny Cash rendition of “A Satisfied Mind.” The song’s gravelly sincerity may seem a little out of place among the ironic kitsch of the rest of the album, but let’s not forget that Cash shot a man in Reno just to watch him die long before the Bride even knew the meaning of the word “dismemberment...

Author: By Akash Goel, William B. Higgins, Nathaniel A. Smith, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Music | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

Let’s talk about the night of a performance. Friday is always a hectic blur: After surviving a thousand quizzes and fifty problem sets, you forget what’s going on—you even have trouble remembering what classes you’re taking. I try to put every spare second to good use, so I try to find time to just lay down on my bed and relax. It’s great if I can find time for a half-hour nap before a performance. Because of the nervousness that comes with an approaching...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Sonia Krassimirova Todorova ’07 | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

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