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...Robert J. Kiely, the Adams House master at the time, remembers that because of the artsy character of the House, the director Peter Sellars would roam the Adams dining hall looking for talent...
...Peter Sellars would walk into the dining hall, look around, and go up to someone he’d never met and say, ‘You’d make a GREAT Lady Macbeth,’” Kiely wrote in a recent e-mail. “People who NEVER were on stage got on stage! The whole place was a kind of stage...
...Peter French, in his 1963 book “The Long Reach: A Report on Harvard Today,” said that “rather than ‘dating,’ Harvard boys and Radcliffe girls much more commonly study together, call each other on the phone right after breakfast, go to class together, and eat together...
...show received widespread media attention, including an article on TIME.com this week. Just before the show aired, Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende remarked in his weekly press conference that the program hurts the image of the country abroad. Referring to the dozens of foreign media covering the show, he asked "if the country should be happy with this sort of publicity." A few days ago, some legislators had urged media minister Ronald Plasterk to stop the show. While calling the show "inappropriate and unethical," Plasterk said the constitution barred him from interfering with the content of public broadcasting...
...Hollywood Squares, Charles Nelson Reilly was acclaimed for more serious work too. He won a Tony in 1962 (in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) and a nomination for directing Julie Christie in a 1997 revival of The Gin Game, and he tutored Bette Midler, Peter Boyle and Lily Tomlin in acting. The openly gay sitcom regular (The Ghost & Mrs. Muir; Love, American Style) once joked that his near constant TV presence was his revenge on an NBC executive who told him that "they don't allow queers on television...