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...guess I just see life funny.” In high school, Segel was a state championship basketball player with a slight interest in theater. He acted in his first play after stumbling upon the manuscript of Edward Albee’s “The Zoo Story?? during a particularly boring art history class. He was intrigued by the part of Jerry, with its challenging 20-page monologue. The play would end up launching his career—Judd Apatow was sitting in the audience. After that, Segel’s drama teacher convinced him to attend...
...know that Will Smith’s 2006 dysorthographic blockbuster “The Pursuit of Happyness”—‘inspired’ as it was by the “true story?? of homeless man turned stockbroker Christopher Gardner—was a fraud? To all the many who walked out of the theater heartened by the triumph of hard work and perseverance, please become uninspired. You’ve been deceived...
...father had loved her mother, or even that he missed her. And yet he had put it there, honored her before turning to another woman.”This theme of learning to live, love and lose transnationally—introduced in the work’s opening story??crystallizes in the closing trio of linked stories, which together from a sort of experimental novella. In alternating first-person narration, we’re told a tale of reverse immigration: “Your parents had decided to leave Cambridge, not for Atlanta or Arizona, as some other...
...RAAARRRRR!!!” comments a “Literate Bear”—and a facetious preview of the Beijing Olympics, presenting new events like “Dragon Catching” and “Overpopulation.” Another “story?? features a reporter infiltrating a honeybee colony while disguised as an “unpollinated daffodil,” while a photo essay explores the outsourcing of the “American lava lamp industry to the islands of Indonesia, where lava is cheap, plentiful, and harvested by thousands...
...athlete myself (although, alas, not a heavily-recruited one whose story as a high school student appeared as the feature of the Sunday New York Times Sports story??close, but not quite), I can tell you is sucks to not have any fans at our games. And being the resilient and resourceful gal that I am, I have vowed to make Harvard understand the glory and fun that accompanies spectator sports...