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Then there's the crucial question of whether a host, as a Writers Guild member, would even be allowed to write material for himself on his own show. A Writers Guild spokesman told TIME that the hosts (who are also members of AFTRA, the union representing performers) are free to perform on their shows, but not to write material for themselves. Of course, the question of whether a wisecrack that Conan or Dave thinks up in advance should be regarded as written material or an ad-lib could be the subject of unending philosophical debate...
...century, what management consultants offered was much clearer. It was called Taylorism, after its inventor, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor called it scientific management, and it involved slicing up industrial processes into bite-size tasks and then doing detailed time-and-motion studies to determine the most efficient way to perform them. Described in hindsight as "the first big management fad," Taylorism was widely criticized--from the right as a step toward totalitarianism, from the left as soulless and alienating. It was famously parodied by Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball (remember Lucy and Ethel at the candy conveyor belt...
...Samuel Beckett forbade any of his plays from being performed in the Netherlands because one theater company wanted to stage “Waiting for Godot” with a female cast. (“Women don’t have prostates,” he said.) The Beckett Foundation is notorious for opposing all alterations to the author’s original work to this day. And yet English professor and Beckett scholar Robert Scanlan managed to obtain permission for unusual changes to three of Beckett’s plays, which he first directed...
...he’s been the most consistent third-down threat—again, in both running and passing situations—for a Harvard team that lacks the pile-moving power of a big ball-carrier at tailback.“I’ve been able to perform this year, and Coach Murphy believes in me, he believes I can perform, and that’s something that I’m thankful for,” Van Niel says. “Thus far, it’s been a really great experience.”More...
Long-term, he says he would like to produce and perform music that is broadly accessible to the average music listener...