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...daily tutorial in how to make people laugh. He would parry with two animals seen on camera only as long paws: White Fang, "the biggest, meanest dog in the United States," and Black Tooth, "the nicest dog in the United States." Or he would go to the back door and greet some (usually unseen) visitor. One was his "girlfriend" Peaches - represented visually by Sales in a blond wig and baggy dress and vocally by either Adler or Frank Nastasi, who did the puppeteering from the mid-'60s on - with whom he'd engage in buckshot banter. (Peaches: "Will you always...
...Sales was back on radio, hosting a mid-morning show on New York's WNBC that was improbably sandwiched between Don Imus and Howard Stern. His cheerful comedic style seemed antique compared with the grouchiness of those two audio superstars. But even in the '50s and '60s, parading his encyclopedic memory for shtick, he was a throwback to every baggypants tummeler, every silent-movie clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained...
...Nightlight” isn’t the Lampoon’s first attempt at longer length parodies. Back in 1969, they transformed J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” into the shorter, more comical “Bored of the Rings.” When asked what inspired the writers to create “Nightlight,” they revealed that for over a year and half now, they have enjoyed “Twilight” and to the point of deciding to create their own version...
...costume jewelry. From everything I can tell, it hasn't distracted. Much to my surprise, because there wasn't anything strategic about this, it has added to my message. And it's an icebreaker. It's even an icebreaker now in many ways. I was on an airplane coming back from Europe two days ago, and I didn't have on a pin because it doesn't work with security. And people would come up and say, "Why aren't you wearing a pin today?" So it's kind of become a thing. And I love to have people come...
...Most small biologics companies are still years away from seeing their first profits in this high-risk, high-return business. Their trade association, BIO, says that in the past 11 months, at least 40 of them have cut back or eliminated drug-development programs. The venture capitalists who invest in them "aren't looking to cure Parkinson's disease as much as they are looking for a return on their investments," says Greenwood. "They're just as happy to put their money into the next iPod." But increasingly, the big players in the pharmaceutical industry are moving into the biologics...