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Cadiff says he will be enjoying spending the summer in Rhode Island and Cambridge to “reinvigorate” himself before returning to work on “My Wife and Kids.”

Cadiff has also become involved with class of 1977 reunion activities.

This year, he will co-chair the 25th reunion’s talent show.

After “scouting out” last year’s show, Cadiff says he hopes to shorten the production from its previous three and a half hour length.

“We have some really diverse acts this year,” says Cadiff. “Some great musicians, singers, even comedic acts. I’m amazed that we got so many people crazy enough to do it. But they know everyone’ll be too liquored up to be embarassed.”

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Cadiff says that he feels closer to his Harvard classmates 25 years later than he did as an undergraduate.

“When I was there, the class seemed to be comprised of cliques,” Cadiff says. “There were the jocks, the theater kids, the Crimson, Lampoon, the preps.”

But with the advent of reunions and class spirit, according to Cadiff, a new clique has emerged—the class of ’77.

“All the other internal cliques have gone away,” he says.

But Cadiff also says reunions remind him how much time has elapsed since he graduated.

“I was at a class dinner a while ago and was looking around and thought I was at my parents’ reunion,” he says. “25 years can take its toll on you. People should go into my profession. You never have to grow up.”

—Staff writer Katherine M. Dimengo can be reached at dimengo@fas.harvard.edu.

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