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...with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
...City Urban Fellows Program, where he became an assistant to Ed Koch’s policy advisor and then a speechwriter for David Dinkins. Later, Attie moved to Washington where he worked for Dick Gephardt, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore ’69, a fellow Dunsterite who would joke with Attie about their shared roots...
...People joke about alcohol abuse now, like they used to joke about drug abuse and date rape when I was in college,” Gross said. “Last year, we had a discussion of sexual violence on campus, and put a program in place to address it. I think it’s now time to discuss the dangers and consequences of alcohol abuse...
Wall Street has been mythologized by countless memoirs and novels that describe a world of dirty-joke-telling executives who thrive on risk, live on the edge of bankruptcy and make money through a fortuitous combination of dumb luck and insight. If that world still exists, it’s hidden behind a veil of polished, telegenic professionals who parade through studios around the world making their pitches to the investing public. CNBC treats these people as if they were sports stars, changing the financial news day into an extended telecast of a high stakes spectator sport...
...joke around the locker room,” Bechdol said. “It was a question of who was next...