Word: studioful
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Harvard has increased its support for artistic endeavors with more creative writing courses, dramatic arts courses and studio courses in VES, according to Lawrence Buell, dean of undergraduate education...
ATLANTA: Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes was taken into custody by Atlanta police and whisked away in a van Sunday after trying to enter a television studio for a debate with three of the other GOP contenders to which he had not been invited. Atlanta television station WSB-TV sponsored the debate among Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes and Lamar Alexander. Bob Dole, the only other candidate invited to the debate, declined to participate. The Atlanta event marked the second time in a week that candidates Keyes, Bob Dornan and Richard Lugar were not asked to participate in a presidential debate...
...Late Night had been passed over for the job as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show. But he parlayed that slight into a lucrative new contract at CBS and his own 11:30 p.m. show to compete with Jay Leno. The crowds that jammed his studio audience gave him standing ovations every night; his Top 10 lists became a national obsession. The ratings soared, surpassing Leno's. Dave was a winner, and America loved...
...caricatures rankle. Kushnick was certainly an abrasive advocate for her client; once, furious that NBC let its coverage of the Republican National Convention run long, delaying the start of the Tonight Show, she sent the studio audience home and forced the network to air a rerun. But the movie's portrayal of her power-mad bitchiness, even to Leno ("Stand up straight, for chrisakes; you're the host of the Tonight Show!"), leaves the viewer wondering why Leno was loyal to her for so long. Similarly, the NBC executives are too wimpy and stupid to be believed. In one scene...
DIED. MARTIN BALSAM, 76, actor; in Rome. Born in the Bronx in New York City, the son of a sportswear salesman, Balsam went from the career-minting Actors Studio to live '50s TV to the movies, where he became a star portraying men who would never be stars. He was an uncertain juror in Twelve Angry Men (1957); a doomed detective in Psycho (1960); a Navy doctor utterly at sea in the moral morass of the nuclear age in The Bedford Incident (1965); and a hardworking family man at odds with his unreliable brother in A Thousand Clowns...