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Twenty-five years ago, college students across the country cheered "The Graduate's" Benjamin Braddock as he broke the shackles of tradition, brandishing a broken cross as a weapon on the altar, knocking to the ground the jacket-and-tie-clad establishment...
Girls Stepping Up to the Altar...
...door. "Outstanding!" thought the leader of the Hostage Rescue Team. "It's gonna work." Koresh's chief lieutenant, Steve Schneider, retrieved the telephone, and the agents felt a moment of hope. But the firing began again. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth...
Inside, audience members did not see your average dining hall. They beheld a "Funking Hall," complete with raised stage (altar?), multicolored lights, DJ turntables, drums, synth, piano--nearly everything except the soulful musicians themselves...
...auto mechanic in Worcester, Massachusetts, young Denis was first an altar boy, then a Catholic-school renegade. "By the time I was 13, I knew I didn't believe the stuff they were telling us," he recalls. "That was part of the fun of it, getting caught doing stuff you weren't supposed to be doing." At Boston's Emerson College, he majored in English and helped found the Emerson Comedy Workshop. After graduating in 1979, he played local clubs while teaching classes at Emerson in comedy and acting. "Leary really inspired me," says actor and comic Anthony Clark, Emerson...