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What does it take to host a late-night talk show? The title of Handler’s Times profile (“I’m Chelsea Handler. And You’re Not.”) is a play on Chevy Chase??s famous “Weekend Update” introduction, but the comparison with “Saturday Night Live” is misleading. A talk show’s standard news-rehashing monologue and various sketches certainly call for traditional comedic chops, but the celebrity interview, a talk show staple?...
...message cuts to the chase??and it ends up right in the core of that soft, plump mass called your heart (yes, you have one; we know it's hard to tell sometimes...
...meets one Perkus Tooth, an aging, roving-eyed rock critic and strikingly disparate figure whose hovel on 84th street provides the setting for much of the rest of the story. Tooth serves as the wellspring for the paranoia that motivates much of the book, and brokers Chase??s introduction to the other major players, Oona Laszlo and Richard Abneg.Chase and Tooth shortly develop a fast, if strange friendship defined by Perkus’ love for marijuana, cheeseburgers, coffee, and esoterica. Their daily smoke sessions serve an indoctrinatory function as well: Tooth enmeshes both Chase and the reader...
Amidst the worst financial crisis in a generation, the chief executive of one of the world’s largest banks will address Harvard Business School graduates. In a press release issued earlier this week, school officials announced that James L. Dimon—chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase??will return to his alma mater to speak at Class Day on June 3. Dimon was heralded last month by the Financial Times as one of the 50 people who will lead the way out of the crisis. The announcement generated excitement among students, who said that they...
...Cheated Hearts” from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ second album, “Show Your Bones.” If O, the leader of the New York trio, was previously afraid of overshadowing her bandmates—guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase??the massive shift that she directed for “It’s Blitz!” the band’s third album, would certainly not suggest so. On her orders, the band has dispensed with the frenetic guitar work that defined its first two LPs. Instead, Zinner...