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...Everybody Loves Raymond (the title character's hilariously insensitive dad); of multiple myeloma and heart disease; in New York City. He chose acting after an unhappy stint as a monk and won seven Emmy nominations as Frank Barone on Raymond. His signature was finding vulnerability or humor in flawed characters, as in a masterly scene from the 1974 film Young Frankenstein. As the clumsy monster, he performs a soft-shoe routine with his creator (Gene Wilder) while screeching Irving Berlin's Puttin' On the Ritz. "He's big and ugly and scary," Boyle said of the ogre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 25, 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...capes, no masks, no problem. The live-action comic book about ordinary folks discovering extraordinary powers transcended geek appeal with a crisp, focused plot and a dose of humor. Special honors go to Masi Oka, who, as time-traveling cubicle jockey Hiro, stood in for every kid (and grownup) who has ever wished he could close his eyes, squint really hard and save the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best TV Shows | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, charmed the media--including a hilarious stop on The Daily Show--while promoting his aptly titled memoir, In the Line of Fire. Guess he takes those assassination attempts with a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorable Performances of 2006 | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

They won't make that mistake again. For delivering such a lesson, and for doing it with good humor in spite of sometimes odious personal attacks, Lakshmi Mittal is Time's International Newsmaker of the Year. "Whether I'm Indian or the citizen of another country is irrelevant in this global environment," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Of Mettle | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

...from comedy, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes presented much-needed humor to the Faculty during Tuesday’s tense discussion of the Preliminary Report on General Education. There are “fears,” Gomes reported, from “our learned and articulate colleagues in the room,” that the touted—and now defunct—“Reason and Faith” requirement of the new general education would place “Jesuits under beds and priests in every corner” of the College. Although...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: I Will Philosophize | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

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