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...lovin’ trio behind HarvardParties.com are the winners of last year’s Harvard Student Agencies Entrepreneurial Contest, and are using their “huge upfront cash payment” to revolutionize campus social life. Even if you’re not looking to host the entire freshman class, Corker, Hersh and Morris insist that it is important to fight for your right to party. For those who decide to take matters into their own hands the HarvardParties.com boys offer the crucial elements to a successful room-party...
...comedy night gets whiter still with "Rock Me Baby," with Dan Cortese as a shock jock forced into maturity by fatherhood. And at 9:30, it gets as white as humanly possible with "The Mullets," the name of which alone inspired the biggest laughs of anything so far this upfront. From two ex-"Simpsons" producers, it's about two brothers with a roofing business, huge poofy mullet haircuts and half a brain between them. Unfortunately, the clips themselves didn't incite the laughs the title did, but that won't keep me from checking it out come fall...
...always hard to tell from the clips at upfront whether a show will be good (though it's easier to tell a real stinker), but Fox's set is at least more original-sounding than most other networks' (and they look much better than its horrible crop this season, "Wanda at Large" excepted). "A Minute with Stan Hooper" stars Norm MacDonald - as a New York TV personality who moves to small-town Wisconsin to produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner...
...Monday's NBC upfront, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, you could see the stars of "Will and Grace" trotted onstage like so many singing bar-mitzvah dancers, performing a "rock opera" that twitted executives and sang the network's praises. At one point, the prerecorded music crapped out, leaving the four singing a parody of "Dancing Queen" a cappella - and let's just say it revealed that Debra Messing is, um, not a professional singer, a fact underscored when she sang a duet with costar Harry Connick Jr., who is. If Fox is smart, they'll score a tape...
...exactly as it should be. We can’t get away from the fact that creative writing classes have built into them a certain measure of subjective judgment. Some applications are better than others, and it’s important that those applicants who can demonstrate their talent upfront get spots. Adding a few sections, as English Department Chair Lawrence Buell has said will be done next year, would certainly be a good idea—but it will not, nor can it, erase the fact that there are not enough qualified faculty to teach enough sections for every...