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...parents always said it was a nice Scottish name. But back in the '60s, when I was a kid, Bruce was for some reason the jokey, archetypal name for male hairdressers and interior designers, as Tex is for cowboys. In those days, unfortunately, I wasn't secure about my own masculinity...
...first thing Larry said to me once we went to our side was, “If we win, you graduate with honors.” I tried to think of something that was also friendly and jokey as a response. What I said was, “Ha ha! Uh, yeah.” Perhaps remembering that he was playing this game because we’re an irreputable media outfit, Summers quickly said that I’d probably get honors even if we lost. I said “We’ll see about that...
There's a jokey axiom in Hollywood: Show business is a homophobic, anti-Semitic industry dominated by homosexuals and Jews. In reality, Sandler is widely admired within the entertainment community for proudly proclaiming his Jewish heritage. And it's one reason that audiences of all stripes like him: Adam Sandler seems authentic; he's not hiding anything. His hilarious Chanukah Song, which he introduced on Saturday Night Live, is considered a holiday classic...
Turning 60 is darned awkward in America. We glorify carefree youth and feel sheepish if our abdomen is not hard enough to crack walnuts on and our heart is not warm and smiley. Geezers and geezerettes go around in juvenile clothes, shorts and flip-flops and jokey T shirts (my goal is to live forever. so far, so good). Embarrassing. A man my age should not aim for boyishness. He should wear an old tweed jacket and wool trousers and a silk vest with a great belly under it and have wild eyebrows the size of rats and carry...
...about to be celebrated in a songbook musical reprising the greatest hits. We Will Rock You, a sell-out hit in London that boasts Robert De Niro among its backers, sets more than 30 songs of the '70s rock band Queen to a jokey sci-fi fable about a future world where live music has been banned. Billy Joel's oeuvre has been matched to Twyla Tharp's choreography in Movin' Out, which is prepping in Chicago for a Broadway opening this fall. There's a Beach Boys musical in the works and another one on the Doors, and even...