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...Herman's as he resurfaced at the televised MTV Music Video Awards show for the first time since his arrest: "Heard any good jokes lately?" Fans suggested that next time he stay home and amuse himself with some of Clarence Thomas' video favorites...
...Herman's as he resurfaced at the televised MTV Music Video Awards show for the first time since his arrest: "Heard any good jokes lately?" Fans suggested that next time he stay home and amuse himself with some of Clarence Thomas' video favorites...
...narrative of piercing clarity and emotional impact about one of life's crucial events. The son finds himself a parent to his own father, a stubborn 86-year-old who puts up a gallant fight against the brain tumor that daily robs him of his strength and dignity. In Herman Roth, the novelist discovers the source of his own tenacious character. There are no literary feints or false notes here, only the steady, frank voice of a writer who has mastered his craft and come to know and enjoy who he is and what he came from...
Laurents was offered plenty of advice about ways to improve the show -- from composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman and playwright Anthony Shaffer, among others, according to sources close to the producers. It was all rejected. So was the testimony of the public, which walked out in droves. At a performance last week, two elderly women in the front row tottered out about 20 minutes before the end. This writer, seated behind, longed to join them...
...talk-show host. Dial scanners have to wonder: Is this guy kidding? Well, of course. Sometimes. As when he announces the Limbaugh neutron bomb: "It vaporizes liberals but leaves conservatives standing." Or when he bleats a duh-duh-lut duh-duh-lut fanfare, announcing a Pee-wee Herman news update to the tune of Michael Jackson's Beat It. Or when he handicaps N.F.L. games by political correctness: "The Eagles, an endangered species, will of course cover the spread against those pillaging, earth-destroying Cowboys." Or when he (infrequently) admits to a gaffe and as punishment spanks himself and squalls...