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Everybody hates reruns, but everybody loves clay animation. CONAN O'BRIEN did the math. On May 15, Late Night will air TV's first clay-animated rerun. "This took four very low-paid people a long time to do," says O'Brien. "And thank God we didn't have the money to do it right, because that would have looked really boring." The Mr. Bill--style animation covers all aspects of the repeat, from the monologue to guests MR. T, Richard Lewis and Johnny Knoxville--even the movie-promo clips. "In some of the shots you'll see a hand...
...summa cum laude math concentrator at Harvard, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and won a Marshall Scholarship that allowed him to earn his Masters of Science from Oxford University. He then returned to the University to get his Ph.D...
After earning his stripes teaching at both Princeton and Brown, Harvard’s math department offered him tenure in 1985—and he accepted. He won the MacArthur Fellowship’s “Genius Grant” a year later. This fall, Kirby appointed him dean of undergraduate education, and Gross acquired a new office on the first-floor corner of University Hall...
...temperate math professor obviously brings a different style to the position...
Gross doesn’t have much time for his cronies in the math department these days—and they don’t let him forget...