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...January, after a series of try-outs, a movie-making challenge, and an enormous pile of paperwork, Grosslight—who does not own a television—was named an alternate for this season of “Beauty and the Geek,” a CW network television show that recently featured Nathan J. Dern ’07 and Alan D. “Scooter” Zackheim ’06. This season will premiere on March 11. The show—produced by actor and “Punk’d” creator...
...discusses everything from racial inequality to the Iraq war. “Twinkle,” which starts as a soulful rap about a lack of socioeconomic progress in the African American community, ends with Howard Beale’s words from the 1976 movie “Network.” His speech is first reversed to produce a sort of poetic rhythm set against sped-up, mixed-down audio effects that convey a distinctly weird feel. Beale’s unaltered vocalizations ring out: “All I know...
...Look! When you swing the Wii remote, the tennis racket actually swings! And there’s a ‘swoosh’ sound!” People were raving about the novel idea that video games didn’t need to be completely sedentary activities. The network then cut to an interview with an overweight kid, who says, “I’ve figured out that if you just jerk the Wii remote slightly, it still works the same,” as he sat and barely wiggled his chubby wrists. All I could think...
...polls on March 4 to swing the balance of power on the board to the supporters of creationism. "If Huckabee marshals the religious right in Texas, particularly in North Texas, it has profound implications for the state board," says Kathy Miller, executive director of the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an Austin-based advocacy group whose stated goal is to "counter the religious right" in public policy issues, particularly education...
...best players. To buy the franchises themselves, an assortment of businessmen and Bollywood actors had earlier forked out a total of $700 million. "The IPL has the backing of some of the heaviest hitters in India, if not the world," says Gus Seebeck, sport-marketing manager for Australia's Network Ten, which paid more than $10 million to secure the local TV rights for the IPL from Sony Television and the Singapore-based World Sports Group (WSG). Sony-WSG spent more than $1 billion for the exclusive global rights for 10 years...