Word: funnyman
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SETTLED by Bill Cosby, 69, actor and funnyman; a lawsuit filed by a former employee of Temple University (where Cosby is a trustee), who alleged that the comedian sexually assaulted her in 2004 in his Cheltenham, Pa., mansion; under confidential terms. The woman, who called Cosby a onetime friend and mentor, said she took three pills he gave her and awoke to find her bra undone and her clothes in disarray. Cosby's lawyers said that after a dinner with the woman, he gave her Benadryl when she complained of stress and sleeping problems...
...brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...
...Borat is one of three prominent, eagerly anticipated U.S. comedies gracing the Festival. The others are For Your Consideration, the latest in Christopher Guest's semi-improvisational parodies (following Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind) and Stranger Than Fiction, in which America's top film funnyman Will Ferrell taps a kinder, gentler side - Motion Picture Academy members, attention must be paid...
DIED. Red Buttons, 87, impish funnyman who emerged from burlesque to forge an acclaimed acting career spanning more than 30 films, including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and The Poseidon Adventure, and stints on TV's Roseanne and ER; in Los Angeles. He was born Aaron Chwatt, but some patrons at an early gig renamed him for his red hair and the brass buttons on his uniform. Buttons became a sudden star in 1952 with his CBS variety show, on which he danced goofily to a trademark lyric, "Hoho-hehe-haha. Strange things are happening!" That became a national...
...Albert Brooks' latest directorial project, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, the U.S. government sends the funnyman to South Asia and he almost starts World...