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...want a Harvard soap opera? You can finally change the channel from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. Not even the Afro-American Studies department and University President Lawrence H. Summers can match the melodrama and tabloid feel of the show that opened Friday: two gorgeous and semi-famous College seniors accused of running a scam to rip off their friends and colleagues in the old and prestigious Hasty Pudding Theatricals, forsooth...
...scene featuring the two Winthrop House seniors indicted for larceny was truly theatre of the absurd, familiar to me only in that it was vaguely reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson trial. The same mud-brown paneling, uptight officers, grim-faced suits. It was a moment of such epic soap-opera proportions that one half expected close-ups or an outburst from an aggrieved Hasty Pudding-ite in four-inch heels. Where was the bad theme music? Judge Ito? The white Explorer? The New York Post headline? But there were no such unseemly antics in yesterday’s episode...
...Town News makes it easy to hide an appetite for titillating tidbits. In the public eye, Randy and Suzanne have become more than fellow students who might not graduate in June if the criminal case is still pending—they’re the soap opera next door...
...Carter ’30 continues to dazzle with a stream of new works. He wrote his first opera two years ago and Yo-Yo Ma ’76 recently premiered his cello concerto with the Chicago Symphony. His intense but accessible modernism is a welcome change from the watered-down simplicity of many of today’s new orchestral works. Symphonia, subtitled Sum fluxae pretium spei (“I am the prize of flowing hope” from 17th-century metaphysical poet Richard Crashaw’s “Bulla”), actually existed...
What he lacks in talent or effort--the dialogue can flop back and forth between smart talk and soap-opera drivel--Williamson makes up in casting. You often fail to notice cloying or clunky speeches when there are really good-looking young actors delivering them. Cahill, who played Rachel's boyfriend on Friends and a murderous junkie on Felicity, is charming as Mike, who comes home to try to figure out his father's suspicious death. Once there, he also has to deal with the angry townsfolk, all of whom he skewered in his best seller. Cahill is especially impressive...