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...main creative forces behind Mad TV, Fax Bahr and Adam Small, were writers on the sketch show In Living Color. Perhaps because Mad is free of the white Ivy League frat-boy image that has burdened the world of late-night network comedy--just last week John Pike, a late-night programming executive at cbs resigned over accusations that he had made racial slurs in a meeting with members of the comedy group the State--Mad TV has taken bigger risks tackling controversial racial issues. In a sketch that took a sharp knife to the culture of victimhood, Bryan Callen...
Also fascinating is Morrisroe's account of Mapplethorpe's early incarnation as a macho frat boy, with his membership in the Perishing Rifles, Pratt's elite military organization, the description of whose hazing practices brings to mind nothing so much as the gay sadomasochistic rituals that came to fascinate the artist later in life. "In this case the "masters"...bound the pledges penises with one end of a rope, then attached bricks to the other end and ordered them to hurl the brick across the room...
Forget "Animal House." Residential life for Harvard first-years does not involve frat houses caked with years of party residue...
...ceased to represent any form of academic standard whatsoever. Some openly announce their intentions to quit school after a year or two, without any pretense that they will finish their degree someday. To them, college is just a place to showcase their talents for pro teams, with an occasional frat party thrown in for good measure...
Perky Brown student Wendy (Libby Langdon) comes into the working class neighborhood of Federal Hill to buy coke for a frat party from Nicky (Anthony De Sando). She is jumpy as a deer, but Nicky is caught by her blond good-looks. He pursues her with the dedication and focus of a hunter, luring Wendy away from the ivied walls of Brown and into his own boisterous neighborhood. In Federal Hill, spaghetti leads to sex, and Nicky's seduction of Wendy follows an introduction to the pleasures of good pasta and wine...