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Then, in a single episode a few weeks ago, Big Love managed to jump more sharks than Evel Knievel in a sequel to Jaws. The whole Henrickson family went nuts, even by their own elastic gauges of plausibility. Eldest daughter Sarah more or less abducted and adopted a junkie Indian mother whom Barb had knocked over with her car on the reservation. On a trip with Bill to Washington, D.C., Nicki was found packing a pistol in a government building. Wife No. 3, Margene, gave her sort-of-stepson Ben a big smooch, recorded live on the home-shopping...
...love Big Love. I love how it extended the standard HBO series premise - "They're a family... of mobsters, of Roman emperors, of vampires... who fight and stick together like any other family" - into the social and political saga of Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton), an ordinary guy in suburban Salt Lake City who happens to have three wives and a bunch of nutter relatives out in the woods. The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. And its creators, Mark V. Olsen and Will Sheffer, seem to keep those...
...rearrange its gym’s equipment to maximize the usage of its small space. “What we’re doing is to...try to reevaluate how we can make the gym as efficient as possible,” said Adams Wellness Tutor Sarah E. Henrickson ’01. Adams also plans to bring in personal trainers to hold free sessions on gym safety and proper use of the equipment. The sessions, which will take place in several of the Houses, are being coordinated by the Center for Wellness and Health Communication. —Staff...
Here's the thingthey don't tellyou about polygamy: it's murder on your cell bill. Early in Big Love (HBO, Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) checks his calls. He has 16 messages. He's got three wives, three mortgages and seven kids. His father (Bruce Dern) suspects Bill's mother of poisoning him. Bill is opening a new branch of his Salt Lake City, Utah, hardware store, and his shady, polygamist-patriarch father-in-law Roman (Harry Dean Stanton) is demanding a cut. Then there's the matter of, er, keeping up with three...
...basic idea is a course to give students life strategies—not just relaxation, not just dealing with stress—just being a more effective person,” said Adams Wellness tutor Sarah E. Henrickson ’01, who was formerly a Crimson photo chair. “It’s a perfect example of the kind of things the Wellness program...