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...freshman class. Which means that, as every parent, teacher, student and guidance counselor well knows, the competition for admission has grown exponentially fiercer in recent years. The not unsubtle subtext of Middlebury's communiqu? is that unless you're a world-renowned peace crusader - or Alan Alda sidekick! or circus performer! or something else truly eccentric! - the odds of getting into an elite school have lately shrunk to Powerball-like improbability...
...this point his girlfriend, in tight jeans and high heels, slithers into the room, curls up on a chair and lights an extra-long cigarette. The mor-tician's skinny sidekick hovers nearby, cracking his knuckles. "This is a competitive business," he says. "You have to expect some violence...
DIED. WHITMAN MAYO, 70, easygoing actor best known as "Good Goobily Goop" Grady, Fred Sanford's sidekick on the 1970s hit sitcom Sanford and Son; in Atlanta, Ga. At 42, Mayo was offered one episode's work on the Redd Foxx series but became a mainstay of the show for the next five years, even spawning a short-lived spin-off, Grady...
...TiVo has decided it knows what's best for me. Pretending to be a responsible journalist, I have the news on in my office, but my TiVo - the digital TV recorder that is a trusted sidekick for my job as a television critic - figures I'd rather watch So Weird, a goopy family show on the Disney Channel. And unlike my VCR, TiVo can do something about it. A couple of clicks from its infrared channel changer and instead of the conflict in the Middle East, there's One Day at a Time's Mackenzie Phillips - yes, she's still...
...Shrek's sidekick, a pest, a troublemaker, a nonstop talker, and he may just harbor secret dreams of pop stardom. Mostly, though, he represents the reality principle in the movie--hooves on the ground, big ears swivelingly alert for false and dangerous notes. His vocal characterization is supplied by Eddie Murphy, and it is fair to say that not since Robin Williams in Aladdin has an actor so deliciously appropriated a movie. Whether he's fending off the sudden amorous attentions of Fiona's dragon, proposing an evening of man-to-man conversation with Shrek--to be followed...