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...however, he's a cutup on the cutting edge, all Boston brashness and Irish-Catholic anger. In performance, he stalks the stage, spewing cigarette smoke and obscenities, ranting out comedy. He zeroes in on pretension, savaging vegetarians, nonsmokers and rock stars ("Don Henley's gonna tell me how to vote? I don't think so"). On cigarettes: "Smoking takes 10 years off your life. Well, it's the 10 worst years, isn't it, folks? It's the ones at the end!" On animal conservation: "How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean...
...WOMAN KILLS HERSELF. HER DAUGHter is attacked, twice, on the same lonely ridge. And, in THE YEARS, a middle-class family soldiers on. For her play, which covers 16 years of muffled torments, Cindy Lou Johnson borrows from Chekhov (Three Sisters), Philip Barry (Holiday) and Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart). But she has learned little from any of them about building comedy or character. Though this off-Broadway production, handsomely designed by Loren Sherman, boasts two movie-marquee names -- bossy Marcia Gay Harden, frazzled Julie Hagerty -- it is Frank Whaley (the kid at the diner in Hoffa) who carries...
When Unplugged was launched in January 1990, it started out by presenting such offbeat performers as Sinead O'Connor, Neil Young and Squeeze. Then an appearance by ex-Eagle Don Henley "upped the ante," according to MTV creative director Judy McGrath. Now the show regularly ranks as one of the network's best-performing programs. In April it scored a coup by snagging R.E.M. for one of only two concerts the band performed in the U.S. to promote its No. 1 album, Out of Time. Last month Unplugged broke musical ground by offering an acoustic jam headlined by rappers...
...Harvard men's lightweight crew is going to Henley. The Crimson earned the right to pad its frequent-flier miles with an impressive victory at the 46th annual Eastern Sprints in Worcester...
...Harvard men's varsity lightweight crew, victors in men's Eastern Sprints May 12, will travel to Henley-on-Thames, England in early July to compete in the Henley Royal Regatta...