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...Allen S. Ho '00 was one of the many fledgling Harvard students who knew no one his first few days. "It was kind of lonely, but that was only for like, two seconds," he says...
Even Woody Allen says he's looking into appearing opposite Rock in a comedy about sportscasters that's in the early-development stage. "Ninety-nine percent of the business is really talk," says Allen, "but I'd love to work with...
Rock is like a hotel shower: his controls are hard to understand, and you never know whether what's going to come out of him is going to be soothing or scalding. "It's good, it's intelligent," says Allen about Rock's stand-up. "He sucks the audience in quickly and keeps them." And his unpredictability is part of what makes his comic take so fresh. "Somebody should always be offended," Rock says. "Somebody in your life should always be like, 'Why did you have to do that?' Always. That's just being a real artist. That...
Rock's office in midtown Manhattan has a crisp, professional cool to it, as if he were running a start-up Internet company instead of a comedy talk show. Still, his eclectic personal taste is revealed in the decor: there are several Woody Allen posters on the walls, including one for Take the Money and Run, a small table with a couple of Jean-Michel Basquiat art books on top, a CD rack with a few old Prince albums. The Chris Rock Show starts its fourth season next Friday, and rows of index cards on a board next to Rock...
...elite union ? and such backroom deals as dropping the drug cases ? the tapes give the first public confirmation of something players and owners have privately been saying for years: That alcohol abuse is a far bigger problem than illegal drugs in the league. Union assistant executive director Doug Allen is seen on tape noting that there were "a dozen alcohol situations" in the previous year. Still, although the league does watch players for signs of alcohol abuse, few players and no real stars have faced sanctions as tough as what the National Basketball Association gave the Dallas Mavericks' center...