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...Sopranos, and Last Comic Standing. The other four comedians performing are Paul Mecurio, Emmy Award-winning writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart; Tom Shillue from Late Night with Conan O’Brien and Comedy Central Presents ‘Tom Shillue’; Marc Maron from HBO Comedy Half Hour and the Late Show with David Letterman; and Tim Young from Last Comic Standing and Premium Blend. The show will be held in Sanders Theatre on Oct. 21. Since no parties are allowed on campus that weekend due to the Head of the Charles, the show will...
...Line of Fire, speculates that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was "the man who may have actually killed Pearl or at least participated in his butchery." According to Musharraf, "When we later arrested and interrogated him, he admitted his participation." A new HBO documentary, The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl, leaves the question unresolved; it focuses on the intersecting lives of Pearl and Sheik, the man convicted of the crime, but also cites unnamed U.S. and Pakistani officials who blame Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the murder...
...wants to be in total control. He spoke of how he has turned down movie offers in the past because he couldn’t see them going anywhere in theatres. Cook maintained that level of control in conceiving of “Tourgasm,” a weekly HBO series that aired this past summer. The show focused on the drama that goes on behind the scenes on a comedy tour. Cook said the show was his idea, and resisted labeling it as a “reality show,” preferring the term, “docu...
...focus to find the pathos behind Elizabeth's stern gaze. As incarnated by Mirren, that least sentimental of great actresses, the Queen might be any aging executive, devastated by the insight that her reign has been endured but not embraced. Mirren, who won an Emmy playing Elizabeth I for HBO, may deserve an Oscar for this ripe appraisal of Elizabeth...
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour introduced a new HBO documentary to a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night, describing the film as a reflection of the violent polarization of the world today. Amanpour introduced the documentary, “Journalist & the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl,” saying that the refusal of both politicians and the general public to believe journalists’ reports on the war in Iraq is a dangerous “denial of reality.” The film, which is directed and produced by Ahmed Jamal...