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...going to ask you to smell your armpits," Sue Sylvester informs two misbehaving cheerleaders. "That's the smell of failure, and it's stinking up my office." Sylvester, the cheerleading coach on Fox's smash teen-musical show, Glee, is a tyrant in a tracksuit: she claims to have had her tear ducts removed, and in one episode from the show's first season, she appears on local TV to advocate corporal punishment for kids. ("Yes, we cane!") But Sylvester saves her fiercest bile for the members of McKinley High's Glee club, New Directions. "I will...
...bullhorn, has made a career out of playing a hard-ass. But in person, as it happens, Lynch is nice. She smiles easily and gushes over the show's writers, her castmates and her fans. In the earnestness department, in fact, she isn't too far removed from the Glee clubbers themselves. (See the all TIME 100 TV shows...
Over lunch at a Manhattan hotel shortly before Glee's April 13 return from a four-month hiatus, Lynch characterizes the show's student singers, without irony, as "a group that just wants to make a joyful noise." She tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts into song. Five times. And though she says Sue Sylvester "doesn't live too far from the surface," the Glee character she feels the most kinship with is Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), a wallflower who fakes a stutter to mask her shyness and generally confines herself to the chorus...
...acclaimed turn opposite Meryl Streep in last summer's Julie & Julia. All of them, however, were bit parts - characters, as Lynch puts it, with a "function": to advance the plot or help the central characters grow without sticking around long enough to grow themselves. Now, with her role in Glee - which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination and helped clinch an ensemble win for Best TV Series (Comedy or Musical) - Lynch has been nudged firmly into the spotlight, whether she likes...
With the return of "Glee" this week, you may find yourself wishing that you, too, could spontaneously break out into song or dance. Well, this afternoon, some Harvard students did just that...