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...third down, Brown tried to set up a middle screen, but Harvard senior defensive tackle R.D. Kern knocked down Webber's pass. Brown punted into the end zone on fourth down for a touchback...
...Since May 1, these deft miniaturists - members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents 135,000 actors - had been on strike against the advertisers and their agencies, for reasons too complex to fit on a placard. And they were finding that not only they but their cause remained unknown. "This isn't about the celebrities," Tim Robbins says. "It's about the 'second doctor from the right,' the people in the background shots - actors struggling to make a living." Just the problem: The strikers weren't famous, not even almost. What...
...Screen Actors Guild, of course, isn't the Teamsters. "We have a very peculiar union," says Kirk Douglas, a SAG member since 1942. "Most unions, everybody makes about the same salary. In ours, some people make $20 million a picture and others are struggling to make enough money to live on. In my humble opinion, which is not so humble, the others have always been cheated...
...Speaking of the uncool, I like the theory behind the new Lowell Dining Hall, but in practice, it's been a bit of a nightmare. The Disney-World sized lines don't make the General Wong's Chicken any more attractive... Speaking of attractive, I made it to the screen test for "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" this past Sunday with a whole bunch of other Harvard students. They evaluate you solely on the basis of personality and looks (interesting criteria for a trivia show!) but I tried to play the race card. I was like, 'Why should...
...painfully obvious: Madonna's entire career relies on our ability to accept each of her new incarnations as genuine. Not only is she baffled by how to differentiate her acting onscreen from her public posturing, but how can we accept the "constructed" persona for two hours on a movie screen when we entrust our society's "coolness," all our most valuable fads and fashions, to the "real" Madonna...