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...student from New Zealand, Harvard has been at the center of a fulfilling overseas experience. But I do miss two things from home. One is definitely sheep. While 40 million sheep roam freely upon the green pastures of New Zealand, I have not yet spotted one of these creatures in Cambridge. Not even on my plate in any of our dining halls. The other is having a beer with fellow students on the river bank. I suppose I could carry a pack of Budweiser and head down to the Charles. But given the attitudes of many Harvard students towards alcohol...
...they have never met. Perhaps it is simply an aversion to seeing clueless first-years dancing on coffee tables. Whatever it is, it seems to detract from the pleasures of spending time with friends over a few drinks. As we allow alcohol to become an end in itself, we miss out on a more appealing drinking culture...
...switched gears with a role in Kenneth Branagh's film of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Two years later, while playing Elaine in a Broadway production of The Graduate, Silverstone had dinner with Miss Match creator Darren Star (Sex and the City). "Alicia has the stuff that comediennes of the '30s and '40s had," says Star. "She is very likable, and it comes from a real place." Silverstone was drawn by Star's track record of complex female characters and the appeal of playing someone who "goes around sprinkling love dust on everybody." Indeed...
...obvious ways (a TV-PG rating, for starters). But both are basically wish-fulfillment shows--with different body parts doing the wishing--about the desire to connect and the obstacles that modern life and career put in the way. Both are set in fantasy versions of city life--Miss Match, suitable to its tone, in a Sheryl Crow-scored Los Angeles rather than haute, edgy Manhattan. And it has Sex's astute sense of people's weirdnesses. Kate auditions a parade of lonely hearts, including a high-powered woman who treats it like a job interview: "I have extra helpings...
Still, there is something potentially creepy about Miss Match's premise. When a co-worker asks Kate, "Has it ever occurred to you that some people actually enjoy being alone?", Kate responds with a swift, cheery "No." Brooking no objections, Kate is a radiantly relentless dictator of love. She's pretty, she's perky, she got her job through her rich lawyer daddy (Ryan O'Neal); we should hate her. But here is where Silverstone makes the show. Reese Witherspoon--Silverstone's successor as Hollywood's pixie of choice--has made a career of playing such characters (Election, Legally Blonde...