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...saying that people who take a positive view of aging actually live longer than those who grouse and grumble, which is hogwash, and I am paying no attention to it. I turned 60 last week and it's no picnic, and anybody who says so is whistling in the dark. Maybe this doesn't sound life-affirming to you. So--shoot...
Right now, Aniston is one of the most recognizable and written-about women on the planet. Even as she was winning raves from critics last week for her performance in The Good Girl, a dark little independent comedy, she could be seen on the front page of a tabloid that promised details of her STORMY MARRIAGE to the equally photogenic Pitt. (According to the tab, she hates her movie-star husband's scraggly beard. "False," she says...
...illuminated by a real participant. The tour began at the Pulse theater where Kramer entertained with his own stand-up and with tales from Seinfeld-past. He told about how Larry David, the co-creater and writer, ended up working with Jerry and shaping the show’s dark humor. He discussed how the real Kramer actually wanted to construct levels in his apartment (“it’ll be like Ancient Egypt”) and how Larry really ordered Chinese goop to save himself from baldness. In essence, he told how the show about nothing arose...
...came for Elvis during the 1970s, a time when no worthwhile American Dream stumbled to a halt without first exposing its dark side. Elvis, despite his tremendous success, is generally believed to have been a depressive, even, it has been suggested, manic-depressive, or bipolar. When he died in 1977 from a cardiac arrhythmia, his finances were in wild disarray, he was overweight and (it is believed) he had been abusing alcohol and prescription drugs for years. His private life was also a mess; his marriage to Priscilla Presley had hit the rocks four years earlier...
...death, bird-man accepts him as a houseguest, sharing his snacks and bathroom. When bird-man suddenly dies, killed by a meteorite falling on top of him, death seeks out a new friend who will undoubtedly die soon. The sad and lonely life of Death's Specter typifies the dark humor and vague allegory of these stories. Another episode has bird-man suddenly and inexplicably turn invisible. He reads a book, makes soup and waits for the crosswalk as a wraith. Haven't you ever felt like that? Becoming a political assassin puts an instant end to his invisibility, unluckily...