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Yuri Vedenyapin ’04 (a first-year at Harvard, despite his sophomore status) displays not only an acute comic sense as Dean Finkelstein , but also shows off ample skills as a guitarist...
...billed as "the black Garbo." But based on her one starring role in a Hollywood film, McKinney was more the black Jean Harlow - pure impurity on screen. Even that's not quite fair to Nina (rhymes with Dinah), for Harlow's was essentially a comic persona, lacing fake baby talk into the braying of the gold digger who's already a little tired of the priapic effect she has on men. McKinney, though her signature character is frequently described as a child-woman, didn't play at being a grown-up. She was one: born to be, doomed...
...child or adult you have never read a comic or even any kind of book like "Marmalade Boy." It will be new to you not because it stars a spindly, ordinary, modern-day 16-year-old high-school girl, or because the story involves no adventures more outrageous than light, comedic romance (both of which are sadly unusual in American comicbooks, but not unheard of.) The novelty comes from reading it "backwards." The L.A.-based Tokyopop has begun publishing a whole series of pocket-sized paperbacks that reprint Japanese comicbooks, called "manga," the way they originally appeared, reading right...
...Winners JERRY SEINFELD Comic sells documentary rights to his tour for megabucks. Meanwhile, Michael Richards is pumped over his planned Iowa State Fair gig 'N SYNC Boy band beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony...
Other performers, most notably James P. Maltese ’04 as Bunthorne and Patience herself, played by Casey Hutchinson (an import from the New England Conservatory), are also spot on in finding the comic appeal of their characters. Hutchinson’s sweet voice is also among the night’s most accomplished...