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...glad I have some experience under my belt as a writer, but I think I’m more of a performer. Maybe I like attention too much! Last year I was in the show, as well as writing it, which was a crazy experience. When I wasn??t rehearsing a scene, I would be brainstorming with the director: adding this joke, fixing this joke, trying things out. Rehearsal was a really full day, and it kept you busy. It was a tough job, but it’s really rewarding to hear people laugh at jokes that...
...function.”There are, of course, songs less successful than others—for instance, “Chinese” tries to celebrate the comfortable and mundane in a relationship but comes off as a little monotonous, and the self-congratulation of “He Wasn??t There,” despite the song’s inspired beginning reminiscent of an old Billie Holiday record, feels a little flat. Still, Allen’s bittersweet lyrics echo long after the record has finished playing, and it’s a challenge to forget...
...Despite his pervasive presence on street signs around America, it wasn??t until the 2008 presidential election that Fairey slingshotted onto the national stage with his creation of the now iconic, red, white, and blue Obama poster. Yet as Shepard Fairey goes from underground to mainstream, and from street to gallery, is his message getting muddled...
...practices and junior circuit squash tournaments. While he participated in both sports until he was 16, squash was always the more exciting of the two. “For some reason, in squash, the wins were bigger, the losses were worse, West said. “In hockey, I wasn??t quite as devastated by the losses. I think I’m more wired for an individual sport. I just felt so much more passion for it.” And his passion he followed. By age 13, West was competing in the U.S Junior Open...
...time at Harvard, his passion for people, and the massive undertaking of the Task Force for the Arts.The Harvard Crimson: Why did you pick Harvard originally, and not a music school?Yo-Yo Ma: I had played cello for quite a long time. And I knew that I wasn??t ready for the profession. I knew I wasn??t mature enough to do anything in music. I knew nothing about the world, I knew I needed to learn stuff, and I needed time. So I thought, “Wow—a university, what...