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...While entertaining the packed Beren Hall at Hillel, Reiss revealed that half of the show’s writers are Harvard graduates. “People in Hollywood call us the Harvard mafia,” Reiss said. “At least the mafia has a code of honor.”In keeping with the rest of his speech, Reiss didn’t hold back from poking fun at his old stomping grounds. “Harvard has produced lots of funny people: Conan O’Brien [’85]...Henry Kissinger...
...question—who among them is worthy of the honor...
...goal—a loss he was able to recoup all on his own in the second period. As the last Harvard player to touch the puck on a Yale own goal, Richter was credited with the score, the first netminder in Crimson history to receive such an honor. “That was awesome—I’ve never seen that before,” co-captain Mike Taylor said, adding, “I guess that kind of shows the bounces were going our way tonight.” “It?...
...Passaic, New Jersey! That crumbling, grumbling city across the Hudson from the gleaming skyline of New York, yet worlds removed from Manhattan magic. A place whose residents shiver in dour poverty, and whose most famous native sons and daughters had to leave town to make it big. The honor roll would include Joe Piscopo, Paul Rudd, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen, Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz, three-time Oscar-winning producer Saul Zaentz, sitcom regulars Loretta Swit and Larry Storch, sports hysteric Dick Vitale...and, Be Kind Rewind tells us, the legendary pianist and composer Fats Waller...
...Venerable, dignified, marginally befuddled Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover), who runs the Be Kind Rewind Video & Thrift Store on what may be Waller's very birthplace, esteems the great Fats so highly that he has commissioned a documentary in his honor. Look closely at the lovingly reproduced footage at the beginning of the film and you'll notice some familiar current faces, belonging to Jack Black and Mos Def, among Waller's fellow citizens of the 1920s. It's as if they'd time-traveled to play Woody Allen's Zelig character in an American Masters episode...