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...late 17th century, and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, a dutiful son and a determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco plantation. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many comic perils...
...with particularly knee-slapping scenes and to reenact them for anyone willing to listen. And since his friends tirelessly reference TV and movies, he now feels more comfortable being social via the show’s ideas. Finally, with a new eye for absurdity, he is thinking like a comic outside the den. The other day he told me about a letter home from his teacher regarding their class pets, complaining that, while at last permitted to feed the bearded lizards a few wax worms each morning, he could not administer a shave. My parents, understandably, voice a some concern...
...DIED. NIPSEY RUSSELL, 80, comic known as the "poet laureate of television" for his signature, often political, impromptu verse; in New York City. One of the first blacks to co-star in a sitcom (Car 54, Where Are You?), he was best known for reciting his topical poetry ("The opposite of pro is con/ That fact is clearly seen/ If progress means move forward/ Then what does Congress mean?") on variety and game shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and To Tell the Truth...
...look closely, you can see what Broderick and Lane get from each other. Take Broderick: with his permanently boyish features, his bite-sized stature, his slightly adenoidal voice, he's the quintessence of the light comic actor. But Lane sees something else in him: a sly, versatile mimic, with stage smarts that won him a Tony the first time he ever set foot on Broadway (in Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, when he was 21). He pushes Broderick to let that side of him show. "He's very spontaneous," Lane says of his co-star. "He's more improvisational than...
DIED. NIPSEY RUSSELL, 80, comic known as the "poet laureate of television" for his signature, often political, impromptu verse; in New York City. One of the first blacks to co-star in a sitcom (Car 54, Where Are You?), Russell was best known for reciting his topical poetry ("The opposite of pro is con/ That fact is clearly seen/ If progress means move forward/ Then what does Congress mean?") on variety and game shows like Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and To Tell the Truth...