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...movie's origins. He and his wife went to dinner with Steven Spielberg (another DreamWorks boss) and his wife. "I'm nervous," Seinfeld said, "because even though I'm Jerry Seinfeld, he's Steven Spielberg." When the chat rate slowed down, Seinfeld mentioned an idea - really, just a joke - for an animated film: a movie about bees called Bee Movie. A few months later, Seinfeld was on the DreamWorks campus, being shown how CGI films were made. And here he was, Seinfeld said, "four years later, because of a lull in the conversation...
...When Katzenberg asked for questions, the international press was ready. "To bee or not to bee - this is the question," one journalist posed. "Will there be a C and a D movie," another asked, "and maybe an X?" Seinfeld winced at each joke. "The bee pun reflex," he observed with a kind of courtesy, "is something we've struggled with for three years." Warning to the press: Never try to make a comedian laugh...
...When he was 13. "We were watching some movie, and we said, 'This sucks. We can write a better one right now.' And we went upstairs and started writing," says his writing partner, Evan Goldberg. The script has had considerable punching up since then, but there's still one joke in the film that they wrote that day. "Superbad for me was the funniest and tightest script I had ever read. Those guys are like baby geniuses," says Jonah Hill, who plays the high school senior based on Rogen in the movie, since the real Rogen, even after double-shaving...
...them one. The latest to miss the mark is perennial top seed DeLillo, above right, whose Falling Man is about a lawyer who escapes the Twin Towers, wanders uptown in a daze and moves in with his estranged wife. DeLillo's tone is crushingly earnest--has he made a joke since 1985? His characters speak in leaden faux profundities, and they're so sunk in post-traumatic ennui you can barely tell them apart. One day a great novel will rise from the ruins of the Twin Towers, but it's not Falling...
...admit it, we like celebrating and cheering on Harvard, especially if we have a common enemy (such as Yale, or Eliot House). Both exemplify the manner in which campus-wide events can create campus-wide identity: These shared experiences create a common bond. By giving students something to joke about in their dining halls for weeks afterward, shared experiences shape institutional memories of Harvard; they allow students to remember their college experience not just as a series of classes, meetings, papers, and deadlines, but as a community.The CEB, by devoting its attention to small-scale events, has bypassed a major...