I’ve never encountered rites similar to those practiced at Boston’s Cathedral Grammar School in the early 1970s, outside of Herodotus’ accounts of Amazonian warriors. Or maybe episodes of "Xena: Warrior Princess." Simply put, the eighth-grade girls hunted the seventh-grade boys for sport.
Whatever happened to the youth movement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences? Younger hosts, hipper movies and A-list stars were supposed to be the recipe for alleviating anemic ratings for the annual Oscar telecast. But you’d never know it judging by this year’s crop of nominees, two of which are in their 80s, or the show’s host, 63-year-old Billy Crystal. Even the nominees for Best Picture are set in days of old.