Word: cutup
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Comedians are the schoolyard bullies of this summer's box office. Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, the South Park gang and those cutup cowboys Will Smith and Kevin Kline have upended propriety and frolicked like unruly kids until the collective funny bone is virtually numb. After this week's senior-prom sex farce American Pie, even connoisseurs of adolescent comedy may whisper a desperate prayer: "From Austins and Adams and Wild Wild Westies, and teens that go hump in the night, Good Lord deliver...
...when another diner approaches. Gates pulls inward, used to people who want his autograph or to share some notion about computers. But the diner doesn't recognize him and instead asks him to keep his voice down. Gates apologizes sheepishly. He seems pleased to be regarded as a boyish cutup rather than a celebrity...
DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
...Nice cloth seats for all the people to cutup," said an employee who asked to remainanonymous. "With all the breakdowns and delaysthey have now, can you imagine what it'll be likewith the whole system computerized...
...room. This love of minutiae is an affection Gore shares with Clinton, but the President and Vice President cut different impressions. Clinton is a loose and easy presence; Gore jokes that he knows he is alive "because I hear myself creak every so often." Gone is the latent cutup who late at night during the campaign would plant his large wing tips on a plastic tray and surf from first to economy class during the takeoff of his plane, tossing out a chorus of James Brown's I Feel Good. He deals with the inevitable Wooden Al jokes by repeating...