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...going onstage without any material, often being overtly hostile to his audience. When that got him a job on Fox's sketch show In Living Color and led quickly to a $20 million paycheck, he decided to ditch his devoted Adam Sandler-loving audience by making the disturbing, dark comedy The Cable Guy and dropped his price to make such dramas as The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And now he's made The Number 23, a cheapie $30 million horror film about a man consumed with numerology, in which he frequently appears shirtless, tattooed...
...Sometimes when people spill about their spirituality, it's because it's a new discovery: 'Oh, my God, I'm born again,'"> says Carrey's Number 23 co-star Virginia Madsen. "But this is something he really lives. Stand-up comics are usually kind of morose and dark people. But Jim is really funny. And he enjoys other people's sense of humor as well." Madsen said that between sets, he cracked people up with stories about when his family was homeless and living in a van. You have to be pretty funny to pull that...
...Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows in Russia, until last summer, when St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, assisted by Moscow-based Proactive PR, put together the most comprehensive exhibition of Filonov's work...
...squash team’s 2007 schedule—a 5-4 setback last Wednesday against perennial powerhouse Trinity—the focus shifted towards the team’s next preseason goal of winning the Ivy League crown. But an injury on Saturday left a dark cloud over the Crimson’s title chances entering a road tilt Princeton on Sunday, and the Tigers took advantage, ruining an otherwise clean Harvard conference slate for the second year in a row. Now, the team’s most immediate goal is the league’s finale at home...
...Board of Overseers contacted by phone refused to comment, as did the University’s official spokesman. Two of the other presidential search finalists—Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan—kept a low profile. Hyman, whose Mass. Hall office was dark by 6:15 p.m., declined to come to the door when two Crimson reporters appeared at his house. And Kagan smiled and went into her house when approached by a reporter. In an apparent coincidence, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is set to play Berlioz?...