Word: funnyman
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...exhausted, tentative Marilyn Monroe is an essential window into the sum of her predicaments. His shot of Charlie Chaplin making devil's-horns at the camera is an object lesson in economical wit. Accusations of communist sympathies were pushing Chaplin away from America; Avedon gives us the funnyman trying on his new role, the bogeyman...
MILESTONES: A legendary funnyman; a girl who was a boy; a royal wedding...
...DIED. BUDDY HACKETT, 78, film funnyman who parlayed rotund homeliness into starring roles in The Music Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; in Malibu, California. In his later years, Hackett was rarely off the nightclub circuit but got occasional film parts, most notably as the voice of Scuttle the seagull in Disney's The Little Mermaid...
CELEBRATED. BOB HOPE, legendary funnyman of stage and screen; his 100th birthday; in Los Angeles. British-born Hope, who began his career in vaudeville, has acted in more than 50 movies, anchored scores of TV shows and entertained millions of American troops posted overseas. In the U.S., Hope's becoming a centenarian will be commemorated over an entire year with exhibitions, stage performances and TV and movie specials. Ahead of his May 29 birthday, the comedian was reported to have quipped, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type...
...Lawes got his start in show biz at 17 as a runner for the TV production company of British funnyman John Cleese, and only a few years later helped launch London-based HIT Entertainment, a distributor of children's programming. Lawes pushed HIT to evolve into a creative studio, and today its most popular program, Bob the Builder, an animated show about a construction worker and his talking machines, is aired in 140 countries. One of the top preschool programs in Australia, Britain, Germany and Japan, it has sold 4 million videos in the U.S., where it also plays...