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...sure, Short also trots out his expected gallery of TV characters - the nerdy Ed Grimley, the old-codger songwriter Irving Cohen - and an ad-lib segment in which Short's most tiresome character, Jiminy Glick, does an interview with a surprise guest from the audience (Channing Frye of the New York Knicks the night I was there) nearly brings the show to a stop. For that matter, the whole self-referential, show-about-doing-a-show conceit (see The Drowsy Chaperone and off-Broadway's [Title of Show]) is in danger of becoming a clich?...
...next week in the musical comedy Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Short, 56, is best known for the zany characters he created for SCTV and Saturday Night Live. The Emmy Award--winning jack-of-all-trades talked with TIME's Amy Lennard Goehner about angst, the birth of Ed Grimley, and celebrity navel gazing...
...excited. I was trying to figure out what I was going to wear on the plane, and I changed my outfit three times." I was 26, and I found that being that excited about something that was so commonplace was kind of engaging. That kind of spirit becomes Ed Grimley [on Saturday Night Live]. If the phone rang, before he answered it, he'd turn to the camera and say, "Gee, I love the phone. There's always such a sense of mystery." It's the ultimate glass-half-full approach...
...Naomi Grimley, a producer of the show, said that Bartley’s was chosen simply because she “heard about it from a friend...
Kirstin D. Grimley, a Nieman fellow and Washington Post staff writer, said that the candidates had all but ignored certain regulatory issues, such as minor changes in the tax code, which could have a disproportionate effect on women. For example, there has been discussion of lengthening the 40-hour work week and changing the definition of an independent contractor...