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...part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called the Socs (that's So-shes). The show pushes its James Dean angst a bit hard ("What do I got? Nothin'! Just another greaser goin' nowhere"). But the milieu is sharply etched, and rarely have the disaffected been so affecting. The best drama series yet from TV's hottest network...
...continually nurtured and others blatantly neglected, Harvard sends a message to the academic community, the media and to its students that reflects a certain set of prejudices about knowledge and scholarly pursuit. The rich alumni whom Harvard targets for fundraising are a product of a social and educational milieu that does not cultivate an interest in many long-neglected areas of scholarly inquiry...
Potential hit or not, Grand debunks any notion that Carsey and Werner have a magic touch. Their shows until now have been driven by stars with well- developed comic personas. (Chicken Soup failed because it never created a plausible milieu for its star. Jackie Mason as a social worker?) Grand depends instead on an ensemble cast, which seems adrift with characters thrown together as arbitrarily as passengers on a lifeboat. Joel Murray has some funny moments as old man Weldon's flaky son, and Reed gives off sexy sparks as the trailer-park mom. But they don't keep...
...fact, the seemingly one-sided nature exhibited by some nerds can often be attributed precisely to their refusal as children to conform to the social milieu, to their inarticulated preference to read books rather than to get wasted at parties. Rejected by their peers for their non-conformity, many become alienated and unable to develop adequate social skills later...
...bald spot?) as they get down to the true ones (involving, naturally, their childhood and piano lessons) is done with similar subtlety. Kloves' delicacy as a writer is, moreover, matched by his restraint as a director. It would have been easy to patronize or satirize the less than fabulous milieu of The Fabulous Baker Boys. Instead he and his fine cinematographer, Michael Ballhaus, have created a gently dislocating noirish mood -- not quite menacing but not exactly comfortable either -- and let it speak for itself...