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...give Stewart?s 10-minute opening monologue a gentleman?s B-intermittently funny, but not what I?d expected from the current god of comedy. The audience received his jokes indulgently but not warmly. He wasn?t David Letterman (another TV outsider who bombed as an Oscar host in 1995), but he wasn?t Steve Martin or Billy Crystal. There were moments when the usually unflappable Stewart, gauging the tepid response, made the flop-sweat asides of a bombing standup comic. (?Work with me.? ?I?m a loser.?) And part of his problem was that he was working against...
...watched the English cricket team arrive in India last week for a two-month tour, Harish Thawani reflected on how the gentleman's game of clipped lawns and breaks for tea and cucumber sandwiches was changing. A few days before, Thawani stunned the sports world by paying $612 million?11 times the previous price and the biggest deal in cricket history?for the TV rights to Indian cricket for four years. "India is the new cricket superpower," says Thawani in the Bombay office of Nimbus Communications, a Singapore-based sports-production firm of which he is chairman. "India now provides...
After living for several years in Canada gathering information to expose an embezzling gentleman, Simon St. Bride plans to return to his native Britain...
...Transwomen should be welcome in women’s spaces,” adds Margaret C. D. Barusch ’06, who was involved in the editing process. “My favorite moment was when I was sitting in the audience opening night, and this older gentleman came to see the show by himself and sat in the front row,” Walleck says in an e-mail. “During the trans piece, he had this enormous ear-to-ear smile on his face the entire time...
...Fife. "It's reinstated the importance of good manners." He hopes the course will give him a professional boost and an edge with the ladies, especially the class in Indian head and shoulder massage. "But perhaps not on the first date. That might be a bit much." What a gentleman. tel: (44-1270) 611123; www.pagetraining.com/finishing-academy.htm