Word: improve
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cavernous stage of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House all by himself for two sold-out shows that were taped by HBO for a broadcast special. As usual, his seemingly extemporaneous material was achingly funny, mostly ribald and partly tailored to his surroundings: "Imagine Pavarotti at the Improv (comedy club)," he mused. Saluting the opera house itself, Williams called its huge crystal chandeliers "earrings from the Imelda Marcos collection...
...wanted to sell out Santa, and John Lithgow is the evil Toy Manufacturer who wants to get the goods before they hit the sleigh route. Moore and Lithgow put in some agile performances, but the lines just aren't there--not even Moore and Lithgow can improv their way through this debacle...
...this seems like a flashback to the you-are-what-you-feel 1960s, there is a reason: Arquette, 25, is a flower child come to blossom. The granddaughter of TV Humorist Cliff ("Charley Weaver") Arquette, and daughter of a Second City improv artist and an activist poet, Rosanna played in the mud at Woodstock when she was ten and was taken by her mother on peace marches, her naked body painted STOP THE WAR, KILL NO MORE. After the tenth grade she left school in Chicago and hitchhiked to California. "I just bummed," she told TIME Correspondent Denise Worrell. "Then...
...should they be. The nameless, stereotypical comedy props are Falstaffs for the Eighties, the stuff of a rich comedic vein that runs under and holds up the presumptive romance in this comedy romance Even against Cusack's domination of this running improv show, his co stars pull off a remarkable success time after time findfors in her few on-screen minutes, plays Professor Traub as more than just a wacky writing teacher: she is a kind of Paper chaselaw professor, seemingly about to utter. "Take this dime and call your mother Tell her you will never be a writer...
...transmit the feeling of New York City's colorful West side in the summertime. Zee and Eli frequent the New York Philharmonic's free concerts in Central Park, visit the Museum of Natural History, and Zee practices her singing (the career she dropped when she got married) at the "Improv...