April 5, 2002
Academic Soaps
The politics of academic departments are often compared to daytime soap operas, and one professor has finally cashed in on the similarity.
Peter Frisch, a professor of drama at Carnegie Mellon University, has become the producer of CBS's The Young and the Restless.
"The transition hasn't been as strange or as hard as it would seem," says Mr. Frisch, who left Carnegie Mellon in January. "The worlds of Hollywood and the worlds of academe are both very self-absorbed and
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