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...show in which the two leads (Craig Bierko and Kate Levering) wind up destroying each other; another character spends the entire second act paralyzed by a stroke; and yet another doesn't come to life until after he's dead. That "Thou Shalt Not" doesn't become a complete downer is a tribute largely to the flavorful music of Harry Connick Jr., the jazzman making his first foray into Broadway. Connick does best, not surprisingly, with the Dixieland-style numbers meant to evoke the period. But he also shows impressive range, with Sondheim-esque character songs, a sweet children...
First of all, the way to get five weeks of vacation is to have open-heart surgery. It is the perfect cover. Bipolar depression is a downer and TB makes your friends nervous and a hip replacement is terribly inconvenient, but cardiac surgery poses few risks, is mostly painless and has a grandeur about it that erases all obligations, social and professional. It is the Get Out of Work card. All you do is put a hand to your chest, and people hold the door open for you and help you into a rocker...
...Fighting words? You'd think so. "We don't want to get into some slanging match with Dr. Mahathir," said Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, and the entire nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged...
...Simpsons,” “Lateline,” “Space Ghost,” the “Chris Rock Show” and his current project, a Steve Martin-produced comedy show called the “Downer Channel,” which will air on NBC. He has received 19 Emmy awards nominations, four of which have allowed him to bring home the statue...
...Indeed, O’Donnell spends a decent amount of time in California, where he has been working for the past six months on “The Downer Channel...