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...eight-year career doing inspired satire, he couldn't get... I was going to say he couldn't get arrested, but that was about all he could get. What he couldn't get was a job. He was a prophet without honor ? and, worse, for a would-be-working comedian, without profit. On his 40th birthday he declared himself bankrupt, and nine months later he was dead. People who may have known only vaguely of Lenny Bruce were treated to the indelible image of a bloated, naked man splayed on the floor with a syringe in his arm. For more...
With luck, the industry will soon know comedian Kightlinger (Lucky Louie), who also created and writes this acerbic, indie-flavored complement to Entourage's big-budget studio fantasy. Minor Accomplishments gets off to a middling start, with a forced, satirical episode involving a cult and '70s movie icon Sally Kellerman. It gets realer and funnier in the next three, which focus on Jackie's dream: writing a long-gestating biopic about her aunt, a '30s Roller Derby star. The movie gets sold--not by Jackie but by a man she briefly dates who steals the idea. She ends up hired...
RICHARD NIXON Eisenhower V.P. and piano man Nixon formed a duet with comedian (and violinist) Jack Benny at a Washington black-tie ball...
...DIED. Red Buttons, 87, impish comedian who emerged from burlesque and Borscht Belt clubs to forge a successful acting career, with roles in more than 30 films including Sayonara, Pete's Dragon and The Poseidon Adventure; in Los Angeles. Born Aaron Chwatt, he was nicknamed for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform at an early gig and became an overnight hit in 1952 with his own CBS variety show. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his 1956 portrayal of a U.S. airman in a doomed romance with a Japanese woman in Sayonara, starring Marlon...
...political and even somewhat catty place. For decades the primary juggling organization has been the International Juggling Association (IJA). The IJA is committed to juggling as a form of entertainment: juggling with friends for fun, juggling to music, juggling by clowns. If you have ever seen juggler-comedian Chris Bliss's epic three-ball interpretation of the Beatles' Carry That Weight, you get the idea...