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Answer: A Harvard senior who makes his game-show debut on Jeopardy! next Thursday and miffs host Alex Trebek...
...also a Crimson editorial writer, was part of a production composed by and put together entirely by freshmen. From its start, the plot is carried by its zany characters, such as capital venturist Dolores B. Sciencecenter (Emily B. Hecht ’11) and the spastic game-show host Ken Karson (Mike A. Yashinsky ’11). As the play progresses, the castaways begin to form a society led by the egomaniacal Brandon (Tony J. Sterle ’11), and only down-to-earth Cassandra (Caroline R. Giuliani ’11) can see the roots of tyranny...
Hawley and 14 other competitors, including students from Tufts, Georgetown, and Yale, spent the weekend mingling, managing nerves, and brushing shoulders with host Alex Trebek while they duked it out for game-show glory...
...latest shot is being fired by economist, actor and game-show host Ben Stein, with his documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, due out April 18. Stein nominally set out to make the case that academics who write about evolution are being muzzled or denied tenure if they so much as nod in the direction of intelligent design. It's impossible to know from the handful of examples he cites how widespread the problem is, but if there's anything to it at all, it's a matter well worth exposing...
Even on less uplifting reality shows, the language of therapy is pervasive. Fox's lie-detector show, The Moment of Truth--in which players reveal hurtful secrets for money--is exploitative, garish and excruciating. But it is also essentially Dr. Phil in game-show form. Like a self-help talk show, Truth brings in family members to air dirty laundry, aiming for confrontation and catharsis. For every awful disclosure (a woman admits to having cheated on her husband), there's a sentimental moment (a father offers to become a bigger part of a grown child's life...