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Redford the director has long been drawn to stories of young people whose innocence has been soiled by cruel circumstance, starting with Ordinary People, later in A River Runs Through It (and even, stretching a point, Quiz Show...
...from hunters and gatherers into nurturers and helpmates? I don't think so. A yuppie dad I know puts Junior in the Snugli, hits the gourmet market, lights the grill, and then boasts of fixing dinner and tending baby. Poke a superdad in the middle of the night and quiz him on his kids' shoe sizes, their birthday-party preferences or Sara's science-fair entry. Tops, he nails two out of three...
Many of us have had similar experiences--standard reactions to admitted Harvard undergraduate status seem to include: the impromptu vocabulary quiz, the "Wow, you must be really smart," and, for the comedian, the "Is it hard work there? Ha, ha," and the "Harvard? Never heard of it, ha, ha.' "If I had a nickel for every time somebody said, 'Oh, I've heard of that...'" adds Lidsky...
...QUICK QUIZ...
...loved making television as much as I loved watching it. One fine October day during my sophomore year, my HRTV cohort Mandel Ilagan, game show guru, told me about a new MTV game show in development that was looking for contestants (no, not "Singled Out"). It was a quiz show called "Idiot Savants," which tested players' academic and pop culture knowledge in exchange for valuable merchandise (no cash prizes, unfortunately). The opportunity to benefit from the sheer mass of the junk I had stuffed into my head over the years snared me easily...