Word: improve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Julius Caesar and knew he had found his calling. Two years later, he wrote his first poem, influenced by early "big word" rapper T La Rock. But it wasn't until grad school that he attempted to meld his dramatic training with spoken-word performances. Kicking around the improv poetry circuit in Manhattan, he met Levin and landed the main role in Levin's loosely scripted, no-budget feature about victims of unjust drug laws...
...levels and bolgias too, but we don't have time to get into that. Let's just say that in the first circle are comics negotiating TV deals; in the second are comics whose agents claim they're negotiating TV deals; then there are comics playing clubs like the Improv in Los Angeles and Catch a Rising Star in New York City; and at the bottom, comics who play the other clubs, which don't pay them money. There are no comics who don't want TV deals, only comics who say they don't want TV deals because they...
...royal couple of improv comedy, Nichols and May often took eroticism into new areas; in one duologue they replayed the breathless infidelity of Brief Encounter in a dentist's chair. The pair, once estranged, reunited professionally with the direction and script for the 1996 hit The Birdcage. "We close a circle," Nichols says. "All the difficulties have long been burned away, and only the good parts are left. I can tell her things in our own code, and it comes out infinitely richer...
...speed-talking Hollywood producer DUSTIN HOFFMAN, left, portrays in the upcoming Wag the Dog looks oddly familiar. He not only uncannily resembles Bob Evans, he even more uncannily resembles the goofy portrayal of Bob Evans that Hoffman did as a goof while filming 1976's Marathon Man. The infamous improv scenes, which have been enjoyed in a few select home screening rooms throughout Hollywood, show Hoffman, right, in a bathrobe with slicked-back hair, big glasses, a stammer and a filthy mouth, pretending he is a ruined, emasculated Evans in 1996. And the President in 1996, according to Hoffman...
...weird thing about She's So Lovely is that a script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks...