During the diplomatic love affair between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2006, it seemed only natural for Comedy Central's award-winning political satire, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, to add British comedian John Oliver to its cast of sarcastic correspondents.
After Bob Barker's tear-filled departure, many The Price is Right devotees were not ready to see another host come on down. CBS took their time searching for a replacement for the animal-population-conscious Barker, the most recent winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show, hosted the show for 35 years of money-hungry college students, military people and squealing old women.
It's a frustrating moment for moviegoers when film critics, like the folks at The New York Times, gang up on a respectable movie and dismiss it-especially one geared towards their high-brow sensibilities. Unfortunately, such is the case with Ang Lee's newest film Lust, Caution, a brilliant but misunderstood movie about the perversions of love during inhumane times of war.
Hope sucks. At least that's the vibe that indie rock-the counter to the deathly sugary melodies of '90s mainstream pop-has been trying to convey for years. But suddenly, indie artists such as singer/songwriters Matt Nathanson and Regina Spektor are getting airplay and selling out live shows-including the ones in Boston this weekend -with their hopeful albums.
"The only reality is imagination," the Marquis de Sade sneers, as ominous towers loom above his head and his fellow inmates of the Charenton Asylum surround him. They twitch and convulse in their post-French Revolutionary garb replete with modern accessories-their fishnet stockings and combat boots.
David Krasner, the new undergraduate head of acting at Emerson, was fully aware of Emerson's reputation when he decided to pursue the new head position in the acting department. While the Yale University export hopes to bring his past experiences - along with a little bit of Ivy League cred - into the performing arts program, he wants to make one thing clear: he is learning just as much from his students as they from him.