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Recently, facial hair has also emerged as a badge of honor, a way to demonstrate support for a cause or express camaraderie. Conan O'Brien and David Letterman grew beards to show support for the writers' strike, and some members of the New England Patriots offensive line have said that ditching the razor blade helped unify the team. Last fall, for the first time ever in the U.S., around 2,000 men participated in Movember--a monthlong mustache-growing competition that raises money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation...
...shake his cynicism, and says, “I fear that the Democrats might still find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”Vowell focuses on current events of a different nature, discussing her thoughts on the current Writers’ Guild Strike both as a friend of many focal figures in the fray and as a writer herself. “The fact that [Jon] Stewart and [Stephen] Colbert came back on the air to keep their crew working—I respect that. Maybe elsewhere it feels like...
...promise to you as president of the Harvard Lampoon that Paris is coming, or lightning will strike me dead,” he said. “All of you may stab me if she doesn’t come...
Having been unable to watch new episodes of “30 Rock” for an insufferably long time, the Roving Reporter decided to go find out how people feel about the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike. (Publication of this article was delayed until the Roving Reporter was promised 0.6% of any future DVD adaptations.)Shana M. Caro ’11RR: You’ve heard about the writers strike, right?SC: Yeah.RR: How long do you think it’s been going on?SC: I don’t know. I haven?...
Over the last three months, the film and television writers’ strike has caused shorter seasons for shows, forced networks to program even more reality TV, and left thousands of writers seeking improved conditions. One of its more unexpected effects may be in the Harvard classroom. This semester, award-winning television writer and producer Jeffrey D. Melvoin ’75 is bringing over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry to Cambridge. Melvoin’s new course, Dramatic Arts 37, “The Craft of Storytelling on Stage, Television, and Screen,” will...