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...serious bout with cancer, which should earn him courage points. Unfortunately, the former senator now seems to feel a need to show the world how fit and healthy he actually is. He does this by dressing up in skimpy bathing suits and going swimming. The only thing that looks funnier than Dukakis in a tank is Tsongas in a Speedo...
...contrast, the British are embarrassed by the direct approach, preferring humor. "British ads are funnier because the British themselves are funnier," says Dutch adman Bart Kuiper. One cheeky British spot, titled The Hopping Pecker, shows a cartoon image of a male organ knocking at a red heart-shaped door and being refused entry until it coifs a condom...
...same token, it would be hard to imagine a funnier, better modulated comic performance from Robin Williams than the Babel of Slavic accents he brings to a Russian folktale called The Fool and the Flying Ship. Or a more touching turn by Sigourney Weaver than her reading of the pensive Japanese story Peachboy. Or a sprightlier showcase for Michael Palin's Pythonesque versatility than his rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk...
...dying five weeks ago after his heart began to fibrillate as he was jogging at Camp David. The result has been a subtle but unmistakable change in Bush's outlook and demeanor. In both public and private, he has become more candid and confiding, less guarded and much funnier. His patrician reserve has cracked a bit and the emotions he has long held in check are suddenly visible...
Foreman has no reason to grumble. He will get $12.5 million in pay-TV loot. It will take Roger Clemens, the mannerly Red Sox pitcher who is baseball's highest-paid player, more than two years in the whirlpool to earn that much. But Foreman gives funnier interviews. He claims to have three sons, or five sons, named George Foreman, which is not just funny. It's eerie...