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...funny as we thought it was back in those less megalomaniac times. But Charlie Chaplin used to say that all he needed to make a comedy was a park, a policeman, a pretty girl and his divinely innocent self. Of course, he was touched by genius and the people who make movies like Get Smart are touched by no more than the unwise desire to spend someone else's money on special effects that are inherently antithetical to the antic. The phrase someone ought to be whispering in their ears is "Less is more." It's a concept that might...
...Carol Burnett Show for more than a decade, Harvey Korman got his start in sketch comedy with appearances on The Red Skelton Show in 1961. But it was his work as a straight man opposite Burnett's over-the-top characters that truly marked him as a comic genius. He also graced the big screen, notably as the conniving Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 western comedy Blazing Saddles...
...Jobs' great skill has always been integrating cutting-edge technology and making it accessible. Flat-panel monitors, moviemaking software, wi-fi, digital-music players, touch-sensitive screens - these have all been out there over the past decade or so in ragged and unpolished ways. His genius was finding and repackaging them, making the technology work to delight the masses. Similarly, Apple's iPhone 2.0 will popularize "geo-location" - think of the satellite-based navigation systems in many cars - as a way for people to communicate wherever they...
...erotic imagery, and dirty words. It is a cry of rage against Rockland and “the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality.” And, in a smaller way, it is a contorted and metaphorical promise of redemption from the supercharged electric chair of the raw-dealt genius. The means of penance is the essence of North Beach’s new philosophy...
...speaks swiftly, his mouth struggling to keep pace while his mind zips along tirelessly and rapidly from one subject to the next. A leading figure in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) community and a professor of physics and electrical engineering at Harvard, he radiates quirky genius...