Word: mimi
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...Thanks to the O.J. travesty (Will we ever be rid of this national embarrassment?), all the soaps have suffered a ratings decline," bemoaned Mimi Torchin, editor in chief of Soap Opera Weekly, in a recent editorial. Last summer, in early July, the serials lost an entire week of programming when they were pre-empted for the Simpson trial's preliminary hearings, and they have never really recovered. "It's been a battle all along," says Susan Banks, director of on-air promotion for cbs Daytime. "We thought the viewers would come back, but they didn't." Since the beginning...
...Mimi N. Schultz '95 is a VES 50 (Introduction to Filmmaking) student who has had her own experience of cooperative learning through her work for the class. Schultz is one of 10 students in her section who are putting forth a collaborative effort in order to produce a documentary on a factory near Kendall Square where blind people are employed. "It becomes a completely communal effort," says Schultz. "It's very demanding of Harvard students, who are usually so self motivated, to come-up with a semesterlong project that we all can agree upon." The students in the class have...
...Starring Mimi Schultz and Neil Farnsworth...
There is no real plot. The main character, Angela (Mimi Schultz) is a bored nine-to-fiver with an active fantasy life. Her fantasies, of a grass skirted shaman (Jon Shanker), of a gourmet-loving CIA agent (Michael Montoya), of Angela's mother (Zoe Sarnat) in a space-suit and of a liaison between the delivery boy (Damien Reynolds) and Angela's gay coworker (Neil Farnsworth) make up the bulk of the play's activity. The rest of the play features Angela slumped lifelessly at her desk or in bed while a voice-over drones on about her unfulfilling life...
Leads Laurie Ann McGowan (who will alternate performances with Alexis Zeiff Martin) as Mimi and Frank Ragsdale as Rodolfo are warm if low-key lovers. Vocal prowess combined with comfortable English diction compensate for somewhat subdued interaction on both parts. (Those who saw "La Traviata" last year can't help but feel a pang of deja vu as McGowan lies dying of tuberculosis in the fourth act with Ragsdale clasping her palm...