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...Carlos, an alumnus of Brown’s improv comedy troupe “Improvidence,” says he agrees with the thrust of Trojan’s cause and was glad to come back to Harvard to do stand-up and distribute condoms. “I don’t know if it’s the economy or something, but people are just hoarding them,” Carlos says. “The weirdest thing was, MIT didn’t want...
...Harvard Time writer. “What they’re doing is a full-scale production; they’ve got people doing high-level camera work and high-level editing.” Although Fithian, who is now “Czar” of the improv comedy troupe Instant Gratification Players, says that On Harvard Time could improve in terms ofterms of consistently high comedic caliber, he adds, “I think if they continue to do as well as they have in terms of recruiting young talent at Harvard, it can only be a matter...
...first LP was the jazz-inflected, discursive Presenting Isaac Hayes. Not until Hot Buttered Soul in 1969 did he connect with the public, and even this album contained several cuts that ran 8 to 10 mins. He'd take a Burt Bacharach song and spin it into soul-improv infinity, or begin his version of Jimmy Webb's By the Time I Get to Phoenix with an 8-min. monologue. Whether singing or speaking, the man could hold an audience. Maybe it was the cover photo, dominated by the top of Hayes' shaved head, his eyes hidden behind sunglasses...
...performers being mistaken for cutthroat adventurers has served movie comedies from the 1940s (Gene Kelly's The Pirate and a bunch of Hope-Crosby Road pictures) to the '80s (Three Amigos!). It speaks to the bluster and resilience of show people; when in mortal peril, they do improv and survive. The difference in Tropic Thunder is that the main characters are more eccentric than likable. That's just what you'd expect in a Stiller movie...
...Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Ledger!), Ledger carries in him the deranged threat of a punk star like Sid Vicious, whom he supposedly took as one of the models for his character. The Joker observes no rules, pursues no grand scheme; he's the terrorist as improv artist. Evil is his tenor sax, Armageddon his melody. Why, he might blow up a hospital or turn ordinary people into mass murderers to save their own lives...