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That book proposal? With a few mouse clicks, it appeared on Joel's screen--and on mine. (Adventures in Monogamy, a 12-chapter comic romp starring...Joel. Mystery solved.) It was also easy to pore over his expense reports, checking out whom he took to dinner in L.A., and what he thinks passes for a legitimate expense. Has Bjork even recorded $112.76 worth...
...Pickard flashed the lopsided grin that proves, in addition to his beanpole build, that he was separated at birth from Brit comic Hugh Laurie (best known on this side of the Atlantic as the sweetly goofy Bertie Wooster of Masterpiece Theater's "Jeeves and Wooster" series.) "The scars are hidden by the suits," he laughed. "Our heads are hanging by threads...
...This is where Yorkin and Lear's flair for casting shows up ? in picking seemingly unlikely performers who will grow their roles and shape them with their own temperaments. Veteran Comic Foxx won his "Sanford" role partly on the strength of his only other dramatic appearance ? as a junkman in the 1970 "Cotton Comes to Harlem." He and Co-Star Demond Wilson now work with "Sanford's" Producer and Chief Writer Aaron Ruben, who is white, to "translate the scripts into spook," as Foxx puts it. "The writers are beginning to learn black is another language." (Meantime, Ruben is training...
...Chicago, the last city where he still takes pratfalls. With its relentlessly slapsticky approach to entertaining kids, and competition from edgier children's fare on channels like Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, "this type of programming is a dinosaur," says Joey D'Auria, a former stand-up comic who has played Bozo on Chicago's WGN since 1984. The station's general manager, John Vitanovec, calls cancellation of the low-rated show "strictly a strategic decision...
...Winners DUDLEY MOORE Queen dubs the comic imp Commander of the British Empire. If England is invaded, Moore vows to make his piano cabaret act extra witty BILL CLINTONE X-Prez, deemed a politician not an entertainer, won't have to pay taxes on his U.K. speaking fees?unless he says something really funny BOY GEORGE Culture Clubber, celebrating his 40th, publishes the Karma Cookbook. That helps make up for decades of dressing like an Amish belly dancer