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...thing about Jay is that, if we’d had a better season last year—not even a winning season, say something close to a .500 season—Jay would’ve been All-American. Without question,” Balaraman stated with confidence...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Visiting Director’s Project, which involves bringing a professional director to Cambridge to direct a production on the Loeb Mainstage. The resulting piece is usually considered HRDC’s main play of the season. Many members of the cast say that working with Broadwater has been a positive experience for them as actors. “When you’re working with peers [as directors],” says Carolyn W. Holding ’10, who plays Electra, “it’s tough because you?...
...persona. In some respects, however, Morgan and Sheen stick closely to the original—after all, Brian Clough was one of the most quotable figures in sports. Several of the film’s best lines—“I wouldn’t say I’m the best manager in the country, but I’m in the top one”—are not Morgan’s but Clough?...
...stand for “funny.” It’s not that we should allow profanity in television solely for naughtiness’ sake, but because it is something that, in reality, we use. Why are we so scandalized by something that so many of us say every day? The nature of Jenny’s mistake is itself telling. It wasn’t a purely mechanical speech error; she didn’t say “frogging” or “flocking.” She said “fucking?...
This is not to say that we should encourage a generation of kids to grow up—as my mother might say—“effing” this and “essing” that, if only because that would be extremely unsettling. But in other countries, broadcast standards are more lax, without any evidence of a nationwide epidemic of depravity. In the United Kingdom, broadcasters must observe a similarly aquatic “watershed” time, from 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m., but they’re not nearly so demure about...