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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Improv--presents Rich Ceisler. 246 Tremont., Boston. Call 695-2989 for information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...Improv--presents Vic Dunlop through Feb.16. 246 Tremont St., Boston. For information, call695...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everywhere But Harvard | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario of Los Angeles' Improv comedy club, "stand-up was traditionally a white male enclave. But today there are no restrictions. Women are able to use their intelligence and their femininity and their strength to say what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...public approval with his portrayal of a delicately nuanced weirdo in sex, lies, and videotape. Around the same time, sometime brat-packer Rob Lowe made his first large claim on public opprobrium when it was revealed that he had staged a somewhat less formal drama -- more of an improv, really -- involving sex, lies and videotape in an Atlanta hotel room during the 1988 Democratic Convention. Now the two young actors are co-starring in something called Bad Influence, and guess what familiar items feature in its plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The Nick | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

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