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...country newly raw to terrorism and wartime brutality, the Get Your War On web-links hopped from cubicle to office to dormitory. Now Rees has a publisher, Soft Skull Press (run by Richard Nash ’92-’93), and a bound copy of his comic...
...black faced performer is a mime that may reflect social irony as well as racism. I believe that Knipp is an interesting character, and his act is tinged with a little of both, as is modern society. Overall, his homage to the black urban woman is one of comic respect. The protests seems heavy handed and somewhat mean-spirited, and I am sure that this performer would be willing to enter into a dialogue about the nature of his act. An honest mediation may help Boston to look a little less stereotypically Southern itself...
...analysts are pretty good." Chuck Clough, CEO of Clough Capital Partners, showing how analysts' newfound caution extends even to praise of themselves "They know that a certain number of morons will succeed under any system by pure chance." Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, on why statisticians don't write management books
...story of comic actors doing serious turns is as old as Buster Keaton and as contemporary as Jim Carrey. But, in fact, Sandler, like the greatest of Hollywood stars, hasn't really changed at all. Rather, Hollywood has adapted to him. Sandler, 36, is not the kind of actor who "stretches." Like Humphrey Bogart or Jimmy Stewart, Sandler ultimately plays himself, which is what his fans pay money to see. Sandler's shrewd move is to keep playing Adam Sandler and get a thoughtful movie made around...
Sandler's comic gift is that he can make a weirdo like Egan sympathetic without being sentimental. He never resorts to the emotional tics so beloved by comedians in dramatic roles. Despite the violent physicality of some of his characters, Sandler himself seems to lack the underlying rage that fuels other comics' work. Says Lorne Michaels, who was Sandler's boss on Saturday Night Live: "There's something that's essentially optimistic about him. He's one of the few people I know who's not embarrassed about doing comedy. He think it's a high goal...