From: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live (Los Angeles, CA)
On ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ed Helms tells Jimmy Kimmel: “I’m giving the commencement speech at Knox College in Illinois… My (honorary degree) will be an actual medical degree, so I’m going to be doing some recreational thoracic surgery…” Read more…
From: PBS: Newshour
Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour talks with [Knox College graduate] David Schulz, legal counsel for the Associated Press, about the procedures for accessing information from the news media about confidential sources, what constitutes “crossing the line” by the government and whether the current investigation was justified by the gravity of the situation.
[Schulz told PBS] “this was really a very large-scale intrusion into AP’s news-gathering activities… if the government can get from the press any time it wants to information about who its sources are, pretty soon the only thing we are ever going to know about the government is what the government wants to tell us. This just really is not how things work. And it’s a tremendous adverse effect on a free press…” Read more…
From: NPR (Washington, DC)
The Associated Press is protesting what it calls a massive and unprecedented intrusion into its gathering of news. The target of that wrath is the U.S. Justice Department, which secretly collected phone records for several AP reporters last year. The AP says it’s caught in the middle of a Justice Department leak investigation.
The scope of the Justice Department subpoenas is what gives [1974 Knox graduate] David Schulz, a lawyer for AP, pause. “It was a very large number of records that were obtained, including phone records from Hartford, New York, Washington, from the U.S. House of Representatives and elsewhere where AP has bureaus. It included home and cellphone numbers from a number of AP reporters,” Schulz says… Read more…
From: The Hollywood Reporter (Los Angeles, CA)
The Hollywood Reporter praises the set design of Knox grad Richard Hoover, ‘69, in its review of “Mad Forest” by Caryl Churchill, playing March 16-May 4 at the Open Fist Theatre in Los Angeles: “Inspired by the 1989 fall of Romania’s Ceauşescu regime and written in the heat of the aftermath, this panoramic epic of a people in turmoil remains pertinent and incisive… [Director] Marya Mazor orchestrates its intricacies with unflagging forward energy and clarity, assisted in particular by the sinuous scenic design of the peerless Richard Hoover, who manages to suggest an aptly stolid architectural rigidity while permitting limitless flexibility of movement for the actors in history’s pageant…” Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Birmingham, Ala.-based band Bourbon & Bleach, with Galesburg native Bob “Hurricane” Harrison serving as lead vocalist and on harp (harmonica), has released its first self-titled CD… Bob was born in Galesburg, and was graduated from Galesburg High School and Knox College. His first band, “Innocent Byproduct,” was formed by Bob and pals in high school. His second band, “Tricyle,” was organized at Knox… Bob’s day job is assistant creative director for Luckie Co., a Birmingham advertising agency… Read more…
From: Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India)
In Chandigarh [India] to play Banta in the upcoming Hindi film, Santa Banta, Vir [Das] gets talking about taking respite in comedy and turning jokes with double meaning into a heavy dose of humour.
Born in Dehradun and raised in Africa, Vir’s father is a farmer, mother a wildlife enthusiast and sister was a documentary maker. Finding Nigera unsafe to live in, Vir went to the US, where he started pursuing a degree in economics from Knox College, Illinois. “One day, I took an acting class and my mentor told me to do theatre instead of economics. For four years continuously, I did theatre, mostly dark roles. Since these were turning me insane, I started doing stand-up comedy as almost a rebellion,” he says… Read more…
