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Even Warhol got sick of it. “My new line is ‘in 15 minutes everybody will be famous,’” he wrote in 1979. Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with...
...mostly in 1985 and 1986 and adapted by Tony Kushner from his pair of Tony-and Pulitzer-prizewinning plays, Angels is equal parts domestic drama, agitprop and Scripture. It follows two New York City couples: Prior Walter (Justin Kirk), who is sick with AIDS, and his lover Louis Ironson (Ben Shenkman), who abandons Prior, unable to cope with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph...
...Until [guards] Kevin [Rogus], myself, Dave [Giovacchini], Jason [Norman], Ko [Yada] and Jimmy [Goffredo] get to that point where we’re fed up and we’re sick of seeing people shoot threes, I don’t think it’s going to happen,” sophomore point guard Michael Beal said...
...actually quite sick and I probably shouldn’t be here in the cold,” said Chan. “But this is such an important issue and we’re so complacent, here in our Harvard world...
...willing accomplices throughout the debate. In the final moments of the broadcast, a young woman asked the candidates which of the others they would most like to party with: “You know, who do you think can shake their groove thing? … If you get sick, who’s going to hold your hair back? ... If you see a cutie across the room, who’s going to be your wing man?” The burden rests on young voters to show the candidates for president that they are worthy of and interested...