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...Sarah C. Haskins `01 remembers seeing IGP (Immediate Gratification Players) during her pre-frosh weekend, and noting the remarkable talent of the improv troupe...
...sensible. His take on Crosby's movies is knowledgeable, always erring (if this can be called an error) on the positive side. Bing may not be a true jazz singer, but Giddins makes a jazz symphony of his early life and career. "A Pocketful of Dreams" is an inspired improv on the familiar materials of that life; a righteous riff, with footnotes. The book makes Crosby hip by association, not with Armstrong, but with Giddins...
...show will be hosted by Harvard's Instant Gratification Players (IGP), a student improv-comedy troupe...
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...
DIED. JOHN LEWIS, 80, primary composer and musical director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet; after a battle with prostate cancer; in New York City. Lewis joined classical sensibilities with jazz improv to create his distinct sound and insisted that the M.J.Q. perform in tuxes in an attempt to make jazz as respectable as classical music. His compositions Django and Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West have become jazz standards...