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...waiting on tables at _____ in _______, ________.” While this is a clever idea, Colbert’s execution lacks the raunchy details necessary to inflame the reader’s imagination, and the one-note joke gets stale after a couple pages. On the front flap, editor Ben Karlin asserts that this is not a self-help book. But it nevertheless provides a remedy of sorts. For everyone who has struggled with love, this book turns that pain into something to share, chuckle over, and even cherish...
...Karlin, former executive producer of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report and former editor of The Onion, does not claim to be a relationship expert. But why should that stop him from editing an anthology of essays about relationships? With the help of comedy writers, actors, and one former U.S. senator, Karlin compiled “Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me.” At an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, Karlin spoke to FM about working with his mom as a contributor, his plans for new media...
...Karlin (BK): I had a deal to do a television show with NBC some years ago and I pitched a show about a guy, where every week was a different failed relationship in his life...And they didn’t like it. But I liked it and [Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me] was the title of the show that I pitched...
...Indeed, the actors seem to enjoy the production as much as the audience. “The great thing is that [the production] makes classic stories much more fun for everyone—both the people in it and the people watching it,” says Johanna S. Karlin ’05, former president of Sunken Garden Children’s Theater. Burkle describes Sunken Garden Children’s Theater as “the most rewarding theater experience I’ve had.” The evolution of the group, he says, has been enhanced...
...characters. Fortunately, three recent Harvard graduates are reinvigorating Ebenezer’s story at Worcester’s Foothills Theater in Massachusetts. Erica R. Lipez ’05 and Matt J. Corriel ’05, along with the theater’s marketing director, Johanna S. Karlin ’05, have put a new spin on Charles Dickens’s tale. “It’s a musical. What we choose to write scenes and songs about is different. We tried to keep it contemporary and interesting,” Corriel says. Lipez adds...