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...rare language used exclusively by women; in Jiangyong, China. Nushu, Mandarin for "women's script," was used to share emotions, particularly laments in marriage. In 2002, TIME counted Nushu among the 50% of the world's 6,000 languages facing extinction. DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name...
...documentary filmmaker Don Larson, dazed and embittered by his grief over losses in the Sept. 11 attacks, to understand, record and possibly join the hunt for Osama bin Laden. He is accompanied by his translator, Wali Zarif, and a curiously laconic cameraman who is either a failed attempt at comic relief or simply an emblem of the film’s utter weirdness...
Though Blickstead has been a member of the cast for two years, this is the first time the thespian has tried his hand at writing. “This seemed like the time to write,” he said. “Maggie has experience with comic writing and I have experience pretending to be funny, so it was a good...
...theme park, Six Flags Great Adventure, is set to be transformed as 'The Great Muslim Adventure Day' ... ENTIRE PARK FOR MUSLIMS ONLY ... Alhamdullilah [Praise be to God], tickets are selling fast!" It promised a "special dolphin show," leading into a talk by a well-known Islamic scholar, and the comic stylings of "Allah Made Me Funny: The Official Muslim Comedy Tour." Was this for real...
Many of his classic bits--a cheesy Vegas comic playing the London Palladium, or Religions Inc., his satire of Christian commercialism--sound a bit moldy today. But his blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames...