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...that he describes as “kind of like a black ‘Ocean’s 11’-type thing,” with “maybe me and [Dave] Chappelle and Chris Tucker and [Eddie] Murphy.” He also describes fellow actor-comedian Chappelle’s television variety show as the best comedy program on the airwaves...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chris Rock Locked Up in Press Circuit | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...that weren’t enough to keep the ever-widening fan-base of the once-cancelled Fox show in a dizzying state of euphoria, there’s more: co-creator, chief voice actor, writer, and executive producer Seth MacFarlane is also unveiling the first season of a new project, called “American Dad”—whose first episode premiered after the Super Bowl—immediately following the new “Family Guy.” Recently, MacFarlane sat down to discuss his new politically-charged show, the jump back...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Family Guy’ Creator Strikes Again | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...award—which was inaugurated with its presentation to actor Jack Lemmon ’47 in 1995—has previously been awarded to such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma ’76, John Updike ’54, and Mira Nair...

Author: By Eve Lebwohl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Tapped for Arts Medal | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

Some artistic incarnations can be dangerous to the incarnator. Eugene O'Neill's father James was a talented actor who played the Count of Monte Cristo so many times, and so lucratively, that he ruined himself for anything else. He became the part. The illusion that was his success (the count) became his failure. (And so, in the artistic hall of mirrors, his playwright son reincarnated him in A Long Day's Journey into Night in order to destroy him once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...performance. As for Diana, John Travolta rated the Princess of Wales 10 out of 10 after a smashing Saturday Night Fever pas de deux that stopped other White House dancers in their tracks. "I tried to do my fanciest footwork with her," said the still glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 25, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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