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When the networks gave way to the splintervision of cable and rock subgenred itself out of the business of unifying youth, we lost our national conversation. Since then, we have been trying to rebuild an Ed Sullivan from spare parts. Television, having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather...
...Maguire's own background as a lonely California kid may have been better preparation for his break-out role as the angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college student in Wonder Boys (2000). His performances were enigmatic, unpredictable and haunting--hardly swaggering leading-man turns...
...would never produce such a piece, needless to say. True, these may be the final words that I write at Harvard (give or take an exam booklet), but I refuse to succumb to sentiment. There will be no leisurely strolls down memory lane, no wistful reminiscing about Our Vanished Youth, and certainly no tedious shout-outs to roommates, friends and sundry others. This will doubtless come as disappointing surprise to the merry band in Quincy 616 and 613 (sorry, Alex and Tuttle and Praveen and Brian and Andy and Josh and Allen) and perhaps to others of significance (forgive...
Men’s soccer, led by a youth movement with veteran leadership (always a strong combination), made its first NCAA appearance in five years on the strength of eight shutouts during the regular season. Considering the team had finished last in the Ivy League the year before, the 1-0 loss to Rutgers in the first round was nothing to be ashamed of. The women booters got a little farther, thanks to a quadruple-overtime goal by junior Beth Totman to beat Hartford in the first round, before losing to perennial national power UConn in the next...
...years back was proclaimed the incarnate of a Tibetan monk). She writes articles on culture, film, design and fashion for four magazines, has two film acting projects on the boil and will soon be seen in 29-year-old French director Siegfried Debrebant's as yet untitled film about youth. "He just turned up last year in Tokyo and asked if I wanted to make a movie the next day. We don't even speak a common language, but I thought why the hell not." We can't argue with that...