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...FUNNIEST cartoon performance, though, is Jy Murphy's, as the insane pool cleaner. He says nothing, but walks up and down the edge of the pool, like a refugee from Monty Python's "Ministry of Silly Walks" sketch. For some reason, this is screamingly funny. But is it funny because Prascak meant for his actors to be so one-dimensional, or because the actors are simply inept? I don't know; it's hard to tell...
...director of Greenwich Village's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, had succumbed to AIDS in May, at 44. Now 1,000 of his admirers crammed into the Second Avenue Theater to watch excerpts from his ebullient farces and to pay tribute to the artist whom Playwright William M. Hoffman called "the funniest man in America." Madeline Kahn recalled her college days with Ludlam. Joseph Papp and Geraldine Fitzgerald spoke of his prodigious energy. Finally, Everett Quinton -- Ludlam's colleague and for years his lover -- walked onstage to a standing ovation. Throughout the evening he had manfully cavorted through such roles as Flosshilde...
Madonna gives a concert that raises $400,000 for AIDS research. The same night, friends of Playwright Charles Ludlam, dead at 44, pay tribute to the "funniest man in America." AIDS has decimated the artistic community. Now artists are fighting back. They write AIDS plays and songs, give benefit concerts and, for those with the disease, face the future with grit and gallantry...
Keillor is one of the sharpest and funniest extempore wits in show business, but in conversation he has a disconcerting knack of sounding like a Minnesota-born Henry Kissinger discussing the dangers of excessive arms control. Asked whether he might play a part in the Wobegon film, he went into his Kissinger mode and said, "That has not been discussed." O.K., did he expect to do any sort of performing? Here he brightened, for he likes the risk of live performance. "You have to perform now and then, to keep stage fright under control." He waves away the idea...
...People and Outrageous Fortune -- followed by the arrival of a new baby, Sophie. Good luck continued to bloom for the Rose last week as she became the top prize winner of the first American Comedy Awards. La Bette clinched four of the trophies: best actress in a motion picture, funniest record or video, funniest female performer and lifetime achievement. Robin Williams was next in line with three awards. In addition to Midler, lifetime awards went to Lucille Ball, Woody Allen, Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Mary Tyler Moore, Mel Brooks, Steve Allen and All in the Family Producer Norman Lear. "Anytime...