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...flaws. University of Southern California sophomore Vinkey Moroak says one friend got a generous grant even though her father earns $300,000. The secret: the nonworking mother filed a separate tax return and claimed the daughter as her dependent, while the family home was placed in an aunt's name. "They're hurting people who really need the money," says Moroak. "I see people who are on financial aid driving around in their brand-new Mercedes," protests Juan Abenojar, a fifth-year student at UCLA. "What is going on here...
Marvin's Room has all the makings for an odd and morbid play. Bessie, who takes care of her bedridden father Marvin and her disabled Aunt Ruth, finds out she herself is seriously ill. She reluctantly accepts the help of her long-estranged sister Lee and her two "problem" children, an older boy currently in a mental institution, and a younger one who would rather read 24 hours a day than deal with the people around...
...vies with Aunt Ruth for the funniest lines in the show. Ruth, who rejoices in the marriage of her favorite soap opera characters, is asked by Bessie, "isn't that the same guy who raped [a woman] at one point?" Ruth responds quickly, "that was months ago, he's really a nice...
...BILLY CRYSTAL HOW HE GOT STARTed, and he will say in the living room, where as the youngest and shortest of three boys, he was also the loudest. "After dinner, we would perform for 20 or so relatives impressions of Aunt Rose with the sagging upper arms and Uncle Max with the pants the size of New Jersey." He learned show-biz patter, pulling his chair alongside the old Magnavox TV and pretending to be the next guest on the Jack Paar show, peeking down Jayne Mansfield's dress and rolling his eyes, flacking his latest gig. "You know, Jack...
...proved that his comedy was universal in Midnight Train to Moscow, the first TV comedy special of the glasnost era, a one-hour pastiche of sketches taped live at Moscow's Pushkin theater and interspersed with his search for his Russian ancestors (he finds and dances with his Aunt Sheila.) He wins over the audience, even getting them to stand and sit in an approximation of the human wave that could pass muster on a bad night at Shea Stadium. He mimes a debate between Gorbachev and Yeltsin, offers a tribute to Charlie Chaplin set to Tchaikovsky and, in general...