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...long when things looked to be going bad. He was hard on SNL when he left the show after eight years, ripping his former producers and writers. He went on to a comfortable if less-than-stellar career in movies and television, doing countless cameos and roles as the comic foil. He was a keystone in two of TV's better sitcoms: "The Simpsons" (as Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz) and "News Radio" (as talk-show host Bill McNeil). Both shows will sorely miss...
...Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years...
Some of the book's impact was apparently lost in translation, as many of Norretranders' metaphors come across as laughable oddities. In one particularly comical description, the author attempts to emphasize the fact that consciousness "consists of information no less than a person who consumes large amounts of food can be said to consist of food." What follows is a discussion that employs hot dogs as its central motif; the paragraph ends with Norretranders asserting, "Consciousness does not consist of hot dogs but consists of hot dogs that have been apprehended. That is far less complex." Even if such...
Molecular biologist Dean Hamer has blue eyes, light brown hair and the goofy sense of humor of a stand-up comic. He smokes cigarettes, spends long hours in a cluttered laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, and in his free time clambers up cliffs and points his skis down steep, avalanche-prone slopes. He also happens to be openly, matter-of-factly...
...enter the same store where I had been so energetically served the day before. The same salesman greets me as I enter, but remains at his seat behind the counter, flipping through a comic book. I wandered around the nearly empty store, passing the counter a number of times as though in search of a certain item. Still, no one approached me to ask if I needed help. Finally, when I neared another salesman, he politely asked if he could help me. The respect in his voice contrasted with the easy, presumptuously friendly tone of yesterday's salesman. I decline...