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'Jerry Springer: Too Hot For TV' is nothing but trash: Jerry Springer was a lawyer, a mayor, a talk-show host and now he peddles cheap mail-order thrills

By Joe Manera | February 3, 1998

No one expected the unimaginatively titled "Jerry Springer: Too Hot for TV!" to be a tasteful affair, but this tacky and exploitative video reaches new levels of poor taste. Not only does this compilation contain some of the stupidest, most vile and, I dare say, ugliest people ever captured on film, but it does not even know how to succeed on its own lowest common denominator terms. A big problem with this video is that it misses the spirit of Jerry Springer's talk show.

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'Infinite Jest' author's latest satires America

By Rob Auten | February 2, 1998

I first heard of David Foster Wallace while sitting in my high school library during senior study hall and flipping through an issue of Newsweek, while under the close scrutiny of the librarian, a 68-year-old harp player who often referred to herself as "The Rock," who had placed me in the "Quiet Chair" for an unnamed and unknown transgression. Sitting there, I was reading about this guy who had written a 900-page "comic masterpiece" with something along the lines of 120,000 typos in the drafts.

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Bryan '98 holds the show together

By Ben Mandelker | February 2, 1998

"Standby. House to half. House out." The audience settles as the lights dim, the curtain opens and the play begins. In the arts world, the faces of actors and actresses who sweep across the stage are easily recalled, but often we know little about those who work behind the scenes. Focusing the spotlight behind the curtain, a face can be added to the voice of the stage manager whose job ensures that a play runs smoothly. "Basically I run the show," said Nora Bryan '98, who has stage managed over 10 productions since her Freshman Spring. According to Bryan, the role of the stage manager is a complicated one, encompassing all the "processes that go on in a play." A stage manager is a liaison for the different groups that interact in a play, fostering the relationship between actor and director, director and technician, costume manager and actor. Fitting together the independent parts of the play like pieces of a puzzle carries a pretty high stress level "until you know what you're doing," Bryan said.

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Oliver Stone receives Dartmouth Film Award

By Matt Frucci | January 26, 1998

Three-time Academy Award-winning writer-director Oliver Stone added the Dartmouth Film Award to his list of accomplishments on Saturday night. The director of "Platoon," "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers" received a tribute and the award at the Hopkins Center. Director of film for the Hopkins Center Bill Pence introduced Stone as one of the most influential filmmakers of our time.

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Broadway play, 'Delany Sisters,' comes to the Hop: 'Having Our Say,' the play based on the bestselling book, contains a combined 200 years of wisdom

By Sarah Rubenstein | January 20, 1998

Bessie and Sadie Delany, two African-American sisters who have lived during every decade of the 20th century, struggled to meet success in times when racism and segregation thrived. "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years," showing in Spaulding Auditorium tonight, tells the true story of their experiences, challenges and achievements. The play is Emily Mann's stage adaptation of a memoir coauthored by the Delany sisters and New York Times reporter Amy Hill Hearth. It played on Broadway for nine months and went on the road for 14 months, earning three Tony Award nominations, three Critics Circle Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. The Nebraska Theater Caravan has decided to take the Delany sisters' story back on the road.

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Politics as usual: 'Wag the Dog' has plenty of bite: Barry Levinson's 'Wag the Dog' takes a shot at politics, the media and the gullibility of the American people

By Joe Manera | January 19, 1998

"Wag the Dog" is billed as "A comedy about truth, justice and other special effects," a tag line so dead-on accurate that a lengthy plot synopsis seems unnecessary. All that we really need to know is the following: the president, caught having an affair with a young girl before election, is in dire need of a quick and effective political make-over.

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Patterson's 'Cat and Mouse' falls prey to too much plot

By Matt Frucci | January 19, 1998

Psychologist and homicide detective Dr. Alex Cross is back in James Patterson's "Cat & Mouse," but is he chasing the killer or is it the other way around? Cross, last seen in Patterson's presidential assassination thriller "Jack and Jill" and played by Morgan Freeman on the big screen in "Kiss the Girls," returns to battle his old nemesis Gary Soneji.

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