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...special guest Jonathan B.C. Tannen ’07—who was cut in the preliminary auditions for the contest—brought the house to its feet with his performance of “Baby Got Brains,” a takeoff on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back...
Prefect Maura E. Boyce ’05, who helped select the original group of 10 semi-finalists who performed last week, said that Tannen was cut because he didn’t have “any real singing ability,” but said that after his audition the prefects decided that he should still be involved with the show...
...can’t actually sing,” Tannen said, saying that before the show he was “a little bit intimidated” by the other performers, whom he characterized as “really talented singers...
...addition to Tannen, other guest performances were delivered by the ’07 Steppers and contest judge Zachary D. Raynor ’05, whose comments throughout last week’s semi-finals had drawn comparisons to Simon, the highly critical co-host of the TV Idol...
...home run." True, arguments over who's hogging the rat meat are probably not what Aristotle had in mind when conceiving the Poetics. And producers can contrive conflict, such as Survivor's races and bug-eating contests, not to mention its million-dollar endgame. (Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture, says this "shows that the programmers don't think human interaction itself is dramatic.") But Survivor functions as drama, if not art, because we can map its petty squabbles and triumphs on our own lives. Those mismatched 16, working together, then looking...