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Robin Williams is the best; he's the most intellectual comic alive [SHOW BUSINESS, March 11]. He is unrestrained without being vulgar, brilliant without being patronizing and critical without being cruel. I've laughed every time I've seen him being wacky and cried every time I've seen him in one of his "sappy roles." He can do it all. MARILLYN SUZUKI-DAY Silver Spring...
...certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height," he told Newsday in 1980. "I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic...
...musician, which was how the young Moore got his start in the entertainment business - first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, then to Oxford on a scholarship as an organist. In 1960 Moore was recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...
...nanny has an unobstructed view of the sometimes comic gap between a child's needs and a Chanel-wearing mother's idea of those needs. Mrs. X tells Nan that Grayer likes steamed kale and coquilles St. Jacques. On the rare day when he has no scheduled activity, "permissible nonstructured outings" include the French Culinary Institute, the Swedish consulate and the orchid room of the botanical garden (fun!). She brings in a "long-term development consultant" when Grayer doesn't get into his first school of choice. In short, they give him everything but their attention...
When Conan O'Brien's sidekick quit his Late Night gig in 2000, the headlines might as well have read ANDY RICHTER LOSES MIND. Richter, 35, seemed the definition of a lucky stiff. An actor-comic whose brief pre-Conan resume included doing stage productions of Brady Bunch scripts, he was now being paid to sit on a couch, scope out the guests' jowls for plastic-surgery scars and make wisecracks. "There were some days when I would joke to people, 'If I play my cards right, I won't have to say a word tonight,'" he says...