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...like they say: Comedy is like a frog--you can dissect it, you learn how it works, but it will die in the process. So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Michael J. Fox | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

...liberating to write for a general audience. DD: When I was in graduate school for comparative literature at Yale, half of all the dissertations at the time involved Balzac or Henry James or both. It was very much like the Monty Python restaurant where you could have the frog on the peach or the peach on the frog. That was the range of options. I had all these interests and I didn’t know what to do with them. I just had a real sense I didn’t want to be one-quarter each of four...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Interview with the Damrosch Duo | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...therapy is “actualization.” Genie’s vague understanding of the term revolves around communication and connection with people in his life. But first he has to get a handle on his emotions. Genie’s only friend is a stuffed frog named Thrash given to him by one of his counselors, he recalls, “to help me actualize, because I was too alone and locked up inside myself.” The discussion of child psychology is limited to that which Genie might be able to comprehend?...

Author: By Isabel E. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Debut Novel Hardly 'Huge' | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...freedom that gives games their distinctive character as a storytelling form. They grant players the freedom to make choices rather than frog-marching them through the action. But therein arises a contradiction: in order to feel as if they're really interacting, players have to believe they can truly go anywhere and do anything in Liberty City. At the same time, in order for a story to get told, they must be gently but firmly stage-directed through the plot. "You've got this beautiful 3-D world that lives," Houser says, "and it's got all these background characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand Theft Auto's Extreme Storytelling | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Illinois in 1975, then a second undergraduate degree, in the history and philosophy of science, at Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship. Melton remained there for his Ph.D. work, studying under Sir John Gurdon - the first to clone a frog. At Harvard, Melton teaches a frequently oversubscribed undergraduate course on science and ethics, in which he uses his keen sense of logic to provoke. When the class discussed the morality of embryonic-stem-cell research, Melton invited Richard Doerflinger of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to present arguments against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem-Cell Research: The Quest Resumes | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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