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...Perry's case, that particular ability is sarcasm; he excels at dishing out ridicule, firing one cutting remark after another, all the while wrapping his acerbic barbs in self-deprecation. Perry's got great timing and a needling delivery, and these qualities have helped make his Chandler Bing the most consistently funny and engaging character on "Friends" for the last five years. And Perry is an ideal sitcom actor--his playful banter and caustic wisecracks are perfectly suited to a medium that thrives on one-liners. But Perry is still trying to find his niche as a movie star. Almost...
DIED. HARRY CRANE, 85, stand-up comedian turned screenwriter and co-creator of The Honeymooners; in Los Angeles. In a 50-year career, Crane made jokes for the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and others, including Robert F. Kennedy...
HAVE WE FOUND THE NEW BING...
Gates is the Bing Crosby of American technology, borrowing a tune here and a tune there and turning them all into great boffo hits--by dint of heroic feats of repackaging and sheer Herculean blandness. Granted he is (to put it delicately) an unusually hard-driving and successful businessman, but the Bill Gates of our imagination is absurdly overblown...
...bosses have often been unbearable and will continue to be. "The caveman who sat around the fire and picked up the stick and hit the other guys on the head became the leader, and things haven't really changed," explains Stanley Bing, author of Crazy Bosses: Spotting Them, Serving Them, Surviving Them. "The really great bosses are not really great human beings. Gandhi was a terrible boss...