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Bello and I once put together a two-minute number for a TV show. Bello when he's not performing is a lot like Bello when he is--wide-eyed, charged with energy. We never actually did the gig--the schedule didn't work out or something--but I'll pay him these compliments, from one clown to another: first, I had a great time--Bello is one of the sunniest and most generous men I've ever known. Essentially I was just there that day as a comic feed, and elder statesman, to feature some of his trampoline business...
...Bello Nock a "clown's clown"? That's a hard one, because--this little essay notwithstanding--clowns tend not really to talk about one another too much. But if you get past the unanswerable questions like, Who's the best? or Who's the funniest? or Whose gig would you most like to have? and you just ask, Whom do you like to go see? then it gets easier. There are only a few clowns I love to see again and again, and Bello Nock is one of them. He's really, really good, and he has a really good...
...costs $1.6 million for half an hour. According to Variety, that's how much KELSEY GRAMMER will make for each episode of the 2002 and 2003 seasons of Frasier--a total of $75 million for two years' work, the most anybody has ever made for a TV acting gig. (Jerry Seinfeld made more, but he was a producer of his show too.) Grammer's people would not comment on the story, noting that the actor doesn't like his salary made public. While $75 million seems like a lot of money, it's worth bearing in mind that Grammer...
...give it away.' A year later he formed his first trio, with the bass player Ernie Newton and rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins (the older half-brother of Chet Atkins, with whom Paul would cut the 1995 album 'Chester and Lester'). They came east and, 64 years before Paul's gig at Iridium, there was a Les Paul Trio playing a New York club...
...America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortage since the oil embargoes of the 1970s," the report stated. Cheney, removed from his Ford White House gig by Carter, remembers well how they played at home - a sudden shortage of crude, soaring prices, bread lines at the pumps. And very bad politics for the president...