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...interested writers were first asked to submit a page-long original character sketch and to write a dialogue involving that character. The second round of the comp involved writing a dramatic climax for a long-term storyline given to them by Presser and the associate producers. Ultimately, the pool was narrowed down to a cohesive, diversely talented staff of 11 writers...
...dancer on the sketch comedy, she sported a bob haircut, tacky makeup and a pasty complexion—a far cry from the silky hair, ultra-bronzed skin and neutral-toned makeup that define her image today. Somehow, seeing those old clips of her dancing on Before They Were Rock Stars goes a lot further in proving how real J. Lo is than any high-gloss video with Ja Rule...
...Because Harvard first-years are loath to admit their ignorance, my declaration of citizenship went mostly unchallenged. Sometimes my fellow first-years, brows furrowed, would ask where Freedonia was, again, and—because these conversations generally took place over dinner in Annenberg—I’d sketch a map of the Balkans on a paper napkin...
...it’s hard to capture a person in a picture.” In the end, however, Uzamere did send in a professionally-taken portrait of herself in a pin-striped suit. “I didn’t want to be represented by a sketch,” she says...
This sort of thing may satisfy the need of playwrights to find new forms to encompass an incomprehensible event, but it risks leaving behind the small human truths that really resonate. That sort of homely detail was neatly captured in the sketch that playwright Lynn Nottage contributed to a festival of short works about 9/11 presented at New York City's Town Hall a year ago. In it, three sets of parents are gathered for their children's first day of preschool. They anxiously watch the kids at play, make snippy comments about the other parents, debate whether to interfere...