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...Halloween night of that year, Kaiju—which means “mysterious beast” in Japanese—debuted at Boston’s Revolving Museum. Since then, its reputation has grown exponentially—publications as varied as the The New Yorker, the Comic Buyer’s Guide and The Boston Phoenix have run features on the trend. Despite the attention, the group stays true to its Boston roots, keeping their home base and most of their shows in the area...
...COMIC PRODIGY...
...Whatever the genes that produced him, Ted radiated a comic precocity. For the high school newspaper he wrote parodies of poems and contributed humorous drawings. At Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree...
...Class of '04," the media dub them), including Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), who went to jail for a heist Tony Soprano was supposed to be on. Determined to go straight, "Tony B." is driving a linen-delivery truck while working to become a licensed massage therapist. It sounds like comic relief, and in a way it is, but Tony B., clinging to his modest dream, is also a poignant figure, Tony Soprano's sad-sack but decent alter...
...What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? and Before Night Falls. That his first Oscar nomination is for work in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean isn’t the result of Hollywood politics. Coming later than it should, the nomination justifiably rewards a characteristically offbeat comic performance that turned an otherwise average family film into the summer’s must-see hit for five-year-olds, college students and retirees. Castle-Hughes’ role in Whale Rider is far more understated, yet the youngest ever Best Actress nominee also deserves recognition for displaying...