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...Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...
...identified as a suspect in the bombing. He sat on the steps outside the modest Atlanta apartment he shares with his mother and his dog while FBI agents searched the premises for evidence. Nearby, the guardians of the press kept vigil on the Rush Limbaugh weigh-alike with the forlorn white mustache. Technically Jewell has not been charged and is only a suspect. But tabloid journalism's hope for heroes had given way to its need for villains. SAINT OR SAVAGE?, the New York Post's front page mused. The answer waited while reporters and lawmen turned his life upside...
...imagination, or did my taxi driver have a particularly forlorn look? Just in case, I told him that in 1932 the Cincinnati Reds lost the first three games and then came back to take the World Series. I've found that it's pretty safe to make up facts about the Cincinnati Reds. They didn't seem to have many knowledgeable fans outside Cincinnati even before they fell into neo-skinhead ownership...
...Blue, Roberts gives Gershwin's material the full post-Armstrong treatment; simply put, he makes it swing. Even the famous opening--the skyward clarinet glissando--is given a new twist. Roberts instead starts the piece with what he calls "a series of improvised statements," the first being the forlorn sound of a single banjo. Gershwin's 1920s piano rolls have set a high standard for pianists to follow, but Roberts' performance on this CD adds some graceful verve. His fleet-fingered improvisations--constant, probing, thoughtful--provide color to an already multihued work without seeming merely ornamental. After hearing Roberts...
Harvard Square is the center of the quintessential college town. Tens of thousands of students daily crowd its streets, all looking for places to have fun and, most importantly, to eat. Yet for all those forlorn souls looking for food at 3 a.m., there are no options but The Tasty, which although venerable, does not suit every appetite. We were therefore dismayed to hear last week that C'est Bon, a sandwich and salad restaurant at 110 Mt. Auburn St., had withdrawn its application for a 24-hour permit. While the Tasty's burgers and eggs can be tasty...