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...definitely a lot more entertaining than last year. All the actors are starting to click and get comfortable in their roles, which helps a lot,” says Oliver A. Horovitz ’08, a writer and director...
Oliver A. Horovitz ’08, a lanky brunette behind a computer screen calls out, “it can only get better from here,” and cites a previous discussion he had with renowned writer Frank McCourt concerning the show as evidence that consciousness of the Ivory Towers show is rising. The purely student run soap opera “pokes fun at Harvard as an institution” and is complete with typical clichéd student characters like, as Pepi says, “the ambitious Upper East side” socialite...
...Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect of magnifying the wise and obscuring the wiseass. "That's strategy," says Horovitz. "We figure if we space our music out over years and years, we won't seem so dumb...
Diamond defends the group's six-year layoff by explaining that "band business" occupied much of that time. The rest was spent tending to the band's alter egos. Horovitz released weird electronic music under the name BS 2000. Diamond recorded satirical country tunes--Don't Let the Air out My Tires, On Your Way Up Again (The Fowl Song)--under the name Country Mike. Yauch, who directs many of the Beasties' videos as imaginary Swiss auteur Nathanial Hornblower, oversaw the Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology for the Criterion Collection...
...good news is that on the 11 tracks devoted to exuberant stupidity, the Beastie Boys remain masters of the game. Over minimalist break beats and a few nice string samples, they shout out lines that merge grade school, grad school and old school. On Oh Word? Horovitz raps, "You gotta get up awful early to fool Mr. Furley/And that's word to Aunt Shirley/And you could stick your head in the toilet, give yourself a swirley." Yauch swiftly follows: "Like Ernest Shackleton said to Ord-Lees,/ 'I'll have dog pemmican with my tea.'" When the rhymes flow, the ideas...