Word: improvement
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That is just the kind of part Reubens was trying to land when he first moved to Los Angeles in the '70s. "At that time comedy was king, and no one was buying me as a dramatic actor," he says. So he joined the Groundlings, a Los Angeles improv group of which Phil Hartman and Cassandra (Elvira) Peterson were also members, and invented Pee-wee in 1978. He did the character until 1990, the year before his arrest, when--fortunately, as it turns out--he decided to take two years off from performing and--unfortunately--grew that scary goatee...
...networks have nontraditional-comedy pilots in contention for next fall. NBC is considering a live-improv sitcom. Dharma & Greg creator Chuck Lorre is working on an interactive sitcom, whose viewers will vote on plot twists, for Fox, which is also developing a series about a bunny puppet who lands a starring role in a children's show. But the networks are hardly abandoning the traditional sitcom. ABC is hedging its bets this spring with two very conventional-looking ones, starring Damon Wayans and Joan Cusack. Even Apatow says, "I like cinematic comedy, but I still think the best show...
...West Wing was showered with Emmys, but more popular--and more weirdly gripping--was Survivor, starring 16 real people conniving on a tropical island. In the year 2000, professed reality battled abject fantasy for primacy. Theater, always about acting, got into the reality act with Lifegame, an improv based on events from audience members' lives. In books, true-life stories continued to sell, but nothing like the fantastically fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation 2, it was a very good year to be 12.) In architecture, Frank Gehry's baroque fantasies reached...
...Averell--a campus funny-man known for membership in the improv group On Thin Ice and his cartoon Neil World in The Crimson--wants to make having fun into serious business for the council...
...female impersonators, the deep-voiced diva is back in no fewer than three plays. Tovah Feldshuh is the star and co-author of Tallulah Hallelujah!, an off-Broadway play in the form of a fictional USO show with Bankhead as host. Nan Schmid, formerly of the Second City improv troupe, wrote and stars in Dahling, in which eight actors portray more than 40 characters in Bankhead's life. And Kathleen Turner, last seen as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate in London, is touring the country in a Broadway-bound, one-woman show called (three guesses) Tallulah...