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DIED. CHUCK GREEN, 78, peerless tap dancer; in Oakland, California. Since the 1940s, the tall, genial Green spoke eloquently with his flashing footwork. Starting out in vaudeville as a child, he kept on performing well into the '90s, appearing on Broadway. Within the closely knit tap world, he was cherished as one of the greatest of the old-time hoofers...
...would sting less when they come from the velvet tonsils of a network news anchor. Apparently not, at least not when they're delivered about a fellow evening star. After CBS newsman DAN RATHER used the word "news-lite" several times to describe his competitors' newscasts in an otherwise genial interview in the Philadelphia Inquirer, TOM BROKAW's hackles were raised. Asked for comment, Brokaw remarked that he didn't "want to pick an argument with Dan," but he did recall the time that Connie Chung anchored an entire broadcast from the ice skating rink where Tonya Harding practiced. "Whenever...
This has to be considered a love story: Howard Stern says, "I love you, Alison" even more often than "penis." The mostly genial Private Parts, written by Len Blum and Michael Kalesniko and directed, with more style and verve than absolutely necessary, by Betty Thomas, is like Stern's radio show: self-obsessed, paranoiac, very funny and way too long...
...however, would (presumably) serve only the limited number of undergraduates of legal drinking age, and would likely boost the already abundant number of graduate students at Loker. Rather than bring students together in a genial environment, alcohol would only fragment the student body beneath Memorial Hall just as it does above ground...
Swinging from vines in the 1930s and '40s, Johnny Weissmuller was King of the Jungle. But on the ground he often played straight man to his sidekick, Cheeta. More than a dozen chimpanzees took the role, and the last was genial Jiggs. Born in Liberia, he was brought to the U.S. by Hollywood trainer Tony Gentry along with sister Susie--another Cheeta portrayer--who died last month at 64. Gentry's nephew Dan Westfall, a theater performer, inherited the pair and built a facility on his property to house them. The scene-stealing siblings were in more than 15 Tarzan...