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Pity the poor hero. Oh, he gets the girl and saves the planet, but where's the fun in that? Love and duty are a puny match for the epochal mischief a prime bad guy can stir up. The villain may be the supporting part, but it's often the juiciest--from the snake upstaging Adam in the Garden of Eden to Shylock eclipsing Antonio to Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman swiping the spotlight from (hmm, who was that?) Michael Keaton...
...most actors, though, including the most distinguished, playing a rotter offers a holiday from more serious fare; a nice paycheck after all those worthy little independent films; a chance to retune the actor's instrument and play it in a darker, bolder key; or just the fun of being in a movie everyone will see. We heard from a dozen of them and squirreled out the secrets of their craft: the Seven Rules of Movie Villainy...
...student activities fee (or at least that’s our hope). With Mather’s roughly 430 residents, that would amount to $33,000—or approximately 4 times the amount of funding that the UC currently provides Mather HoCo. The sheer amount of fun that those funds would provide is simply unfathomable...
Ultimately, the plight of Mather House is the interest of all fun-loving students at Harvard. Two houses (namely, the host of the failed “Glowell” rave and the home of a tower which seems prepubescent next to Mather’s 18-story Goliath) have already threatened a counter-revolution, but this historic moment is a greater opportunity for teamwork than for animosity. Houses should join together with Mather in celebration of the great and often suppressed rights of Harvardians: hedonistic pleasure, political self-determination, and foam parties...
This turn of events, an abrupt secession and the prospect of inter-house war, is therefore a call-to-arms not merely for Matherites but for all houses sympathetic to the concept of “fun.” Mather House invites all students to join forces against tyranny this Saturday, April 28, at the Mather Lather. Tickets...