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...Allies' invasion of Normandy. "I didn't want to screw it up," says Selleck, who also prepared for the role by talking with Eisenhower's son and learning an appropriate President-to-be's voice. So what does he think of TV these days? Selleck refers to a gig he once had on a little NBC show called Friends: "I think Monica still really loves Richard...
...Larry Summers was named Harvard President, a job possibly more prestigious and political than his gig as Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary. After bruising some Harvard egos with his acerbity, he has launched a $2 million student-aid plan that might help soften his image. TIME's John Cloud spoke with Summers about changes at Harvard and other matters beyond the Ivy League halls...
Third, some low-carb products are so loaded with extra calories that they pose an unnecessary hurdle to weight loss. Take Subway's traditional 280-calorie 6-in. sandwich, the one that helped Jared slim down and find a gig as Subway's pitchman. That's about half the calories of the Atkins-friendly Subway chicken bacon ranch wrap. Want real results? Order the traditional sandwich on the tortilla wrap for fewer carbs and fewer calories...
...doesn't plan to do much more of it. A former member of Second City, she says she goes out for auditions but has never landed an acting part--the closest she has come being a callback for Down with Love. So in addition to keeping the writing gig she has had for seven years at SNL, she's also working on a sitcom-development deal at NBC. And she would like to write and direct movies in which she has small parts. "My role model is Harold Ramis," she says, referring to the writer of such movies as Stripes...
...absence of the lush production is evident as early as the band’s sound check—the band’s sound is immediately spikier and much more stripped-down than on the album. Clearlake mentions an acoustic radio gig in Seattle as a recent source of some exposure, and they seem competent on both fronts: a lavish and emotional sound on album, and equally affecting acoustic and live arrangements...