The words Hello, my name is Andy, and this is my soundtrack graces the cover of the Man on the Moon soundtrack (Warner Bros.) as well as a picture of Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman. The design and idea of the cover are simple, and the music is nothing you would expect.
The soundtrack houses a collection of songs, both vocal and instrumental. Various tracks offer listeners dialogue from the movie. It is clear this is not an ordinary soundtrack containing simply music. Instead, listeners are offered a taste of all sorts of musical and entertaining bits.
The soundtrack’s greatest contributor is R.E.M. In addition to the popular song Man on the Moon from the band’s album Automatic For the People, R.E.M. performs its latest song, The Great Beyond. Lead singer Michael Stipe sings a duet with Carrey as Andy Kaufman in This Friendly World. Along with these songs, R.E.M. provides mesmerizing and melodic scores to the tracks Tony Thrown Out, Miracle, Andy Gets Fired and Milk & Cookies.
The soundtrack includes Angela (Theme from `Taxi’), because of Kaufman’s successful character, Latka, from Taxi. There is also the Mighty Mouse Theme, performed by Kaufman during his first appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Throughout the soundtrack, Carrey’s voice interacts with characters from the film in various dialogues leading into or out of a song. Kaufman’s character, Tony Clifton, provides a little entertainment with his rendition of I Will Survive.
The Man on the Moon soundtrack is far from your average music from a film. Instead, it illustrates Andy Kaufman’s life from the beginning of his success and throughout his entire career as an entertainer. Vocals, instrumentals and conversations between characters help ease the transition from each track to the next to create an enjoyable soundtrack.
When I sat down to write this letter, I intended to respond to Alex Eisner’s breathtaking column from Thursday’s Hatchet (“Just wait for buyer’s remorse,” p. 4) with a reasoned, point-by-point criticism of his argument. After about 10 minutes of attempting to do so and re-reading his column – a column essentially devoid of reason, humor or intelligent thought – I realized that I had greatly overestimated my patience.
Therefore, I’m going to press “Enter” 10 times, so as to demonstrate how The Hatchet might have better utilized the space on its opinions page, rather than printing Mr. Eisner’s column.
Many in the District know me as the woman that chases people down the street saying, “I am $100,000 in debt to get YOU to quit smoking, use a condom and put your weapon down.” I then follow up and say, “I am working on my masters in public health.”
Actually, not really. Myself and 600 or so other colleagues never went into public health to “get rich.” We love people and we want to make a difference. Most of us, however, are in severe debt. I was able to consolidate my undergraduate loans at the University of Utah for a fraction of the cost that my debt will be to GW.
There would be nothing more rewarding in life to know that GW honestly supported what I like to call the “what were we thinking, but love what we are doing” master’s degree students and undergrads. Maybe they could help us to not only pursue our intended careers, but to be able to maybe own a home and have a balance more than $5 in their checking accounts, instead of spending $350,000 on a float for the inauguration, even though I do love Obama.
I moved to D.C. to stay in D.C. I realize I am one of the few, but I wonder how many more students, particularly in public health, would stay in D.C., given the dire need for public health officials in the District. I can assure you I would feel more inclined to give back to the University or have the ability to give back to the University as an alumni if I saw any light at the end of that deep, dark, black hole of student loan debt.
I’m from California. My mom is a Hispanic immigrant and my Caucasian father is from another solidly blue state. Los Angeles County’s 9.9 million residents, myself included, constitute a minority-majority. I grew up speaking Spanish and French, had mostly Asian friends, lived two blocks from Compton and went to a Christian private school.
Any one of the above would have been cause for discrimination 30 years ago. Civil rights have progressed to the point where the majority accepts the minority and vice versa.
I voted to allow the government to legislate against the civil rights of a very large minority. Why? Because on this one, I can’t allow myself to fulfill my constitutional responsibility and separate church and state.
As hard as I’ve tried, I’ve come to the same conclusion as Catherine Chandler – I’ve found “No legal argument against gay marriage” (Nov. 13, p. 5). It doesn’t come down to hate. It’s not legislation against love or happiness.
The majority of the 52 percent majority didn’t vote for Prop 8 because we “hate fags.” We voted for this “giant leap backward” (Nov. 13, p. 5) because of our religion. We cast that unpopular vote due to our beliefs.
Board of Trustees Chair Nelson Carbonell led his first meeting as chairman last month. Some faculty are protesting the Board's process for reviewing the Faculty Code.
Some faculty say they are alarmed that the Board of Trustees and administrators are overlooking professors’ role in governing the University, leaving them out of decisions about the faculty code and online courses.
Charles Garris, an engineering professor and chair of the professional ethics and academic freedom committee, will submit a resolution at Friday’s senate meeting, arguing that a task force that is revising the faculty code this year should submit their work to his committee and the senate for review before the Board votes to adopt it.
Board of Trustees Chair Nelson Carbonell led his first meeting as chairman last month. Some faculty are protesting the Board’s process for reviewing the Faculty Code.
The small flashes of power struggle come after top administrators eased concerns from professors by involving them in plans to expand GW to China last month. The senate and top administrators had mostly worked in lockstep over the last few years, with few tensions flaring.
Garris said the code calls for faculty participation when rewriting it, and said they have been included each time the code was revised in at least the last 50 years. By submitting the resolution, Garris said he is trying to prevent a situation in which the Board could limit how much say faculty have in University policies, he said.
“I think the administration is not following the spirit of the faculty code, and I think that’s what people are bothered about,” Garris said. “But on the other hand, it could be rectified.”
Economics professor Donald Parsons said Board chair Nelson Carbonell did not respond to faculty concerns from September when he spoke of his plans at the Faculty Assembly two weeks later. He called it a fundamental change for the Board not to include the Faculty Senate in code revisions, which they have historically played a role in forming.
“I see this as moving this a step up to make sure that the trustees themselves don’t misunderstand the gravity of what chair Carbonell is doing,” Parsons said.
Carbonell told faculty at a University-wide faculty meeting in October that the Board wanted to update the code as GW prepared to act on its 10-year strategic plan, but did not outline specific rule changes. The code last underwent a major revision in 2004.
In September, he said a task force of board members and faculty would hold meetings with professors in the fall to discuss changes to the code. He said they hoped to have recommendations in December or January.
“You may be skeptical and there’s nothing I can do about that, but the Board would like to make sure we have looked at this and there’s alignment,” Carbonell said at the meeting.
He told faculty that the Board had “no desire to create an adversarial process,” adding that he did not think it would become a conflict.
Garris said faculty could face a similar situation Friday, when Provost Steven Lerman will disucss a new policy regarding the administration’s accessibility of online courses.
The provost’s office announced last week that administrators could give auditors and outside researchers access to online course materials “at its discretion.”
In an email obtained by The Hatchet, Phil Wirtz, vice dean of programs and education in the GW School of Business, objected to the policy because it was created without faculty input and professors would have no “knowledge that such surveillance is occurring.”
Paul Schiff Berman, vice provost for online education and academic innovation, said the University made the move was reason to streamline the compliance process the University must follow legally and for accreditation.
“Sometimes this access must be granted on an expedited basis, making it not feasible to track down every faculty member that may be involved in order to get individualized permission, and since these are legal or accreditation requirements, it is not something that is optional in any event,” he said in an email.
The Homenetmen, an Armenian scouting group, protests the Turkish and U.S. governments’ lack of acknowledgement of the 1915 Armenian Genocide in front of the White House on Saturday.