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Ferrell, 39, grew up in Irvine, Calif. (his father played keyboards for the Righteous Brothers, and his mother was a teacher) and learned the art of improvisation while with the Los Angeles comedy troupe the Groundlings. By all accounts, he worked hard but was such a natural that it was a given he would follow Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz on the well-worn road from the Groundlings to Saturday Night Live. When Ferrell arrived at SNL during the 1995-96 season, he rapidly pulled off the difficult trick of being both favored by the writers (he was often...
...Office's Rainn Wilson swaps jobs and personalities to play a hippie-ish science teacher in The Last Mimzy...
Bozena Ukalska SHOP ASSISTANT A former religion teacher from southeastern Poland, Bozena Ukalska, 47, had already spent fruitless months job hunting when her husband was laid off from the local automobile plant. So in 2005, she says, "we decided to leave. That's better than sitting and crying and begging for help." They went to Spain where at first she worked illicitly, earning cash in hand as a cleaning lady. A year later, Spain opened its labor markets to new E.U. citizens and she took legal employment near Madrid in a shop selling Polish products. Today, Ukalska earns...
...This semester, Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 and Assistant Director of the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program Orin Gutlerner have designed an independent study for History and Literature students with a similar outside component. The course pairs undergraduates with teachers at a local charter school to help design a history and literature curriculum for their classes...
...English 10a, “Major British Writers,” an introductory class in British literature from the Anglo-Saxon era to John Milton. “I think he was discussing ‘The Canterbury Tales,’ and reading with him as the teacher changed the whole thing. I realized I want to do this, I want to read about this tradition. And reading and writing go hand in hand,” Iweala said. Iweala said he had been interested in creative writing since high school. When he came to Harvard as a freshman...