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...David Marx '01 & Benjamin J. Novak '01: The Dilettantes...
...plot had the essentials: murder, morality and chewy nougat. All that David Marx needed was someone with whom to collaborate on his self-proclaimed best idea for a movie ever. Fate brought Marx together with B.J. Novak, roommate and aspiring filmmaker to collaborate in "Studio Holworthy" to make these first-years' first movie. The plot of Marx's screenplay, which came to be called "Who Laughs Last," centers around a joke printed on the inside of a Laffy Taffy candy wrapper--a joke so egregiously unfunny that a group of young Laffy Taffy devotees vow to find and kill...
...screenplay was originally written entirely by Marx but the main characters' "ghetto lingo" lacked the ring of truth, an authenticity which Novak brought forth from his Newton, Mass. roots. Novak plunged right to the heart of the film which he claims is actually all about caring. "The kids care so much about a joke that they're willing to kill for it. I would care that much." He reconsiders, "I wouldn't kill," he says, "but I would care." Eager to shoot the revamped script, the two roommates joined Harvard-Radcliffe Television's movie-making branch, the Filmmakers' Network, which...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...Starr lives on," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. "He was never going to charge Clinton -- that's not his job. His job is to send a report to the Hill." Whether or not Republicans can muster the political will to take on Clinton is not Starr's problem, and the shrinking legal target (without Paula Jones, perjury in a weak civil case is now perjury in a nonexistent one) isn't either...