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...that the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy has adopted the distinctly childish moniker P-Diddy, his arrests seem to have also veered into the kiddie department. P-Diddy (née Sean Combs) was arrested in Miami Beach for making an illegal lane change on a scooter and charged with driving on a suspended license. Driving a scooter on a suspended license? I suppose it could have been sillier. He could’ve run someone over while using one of those Razor scooter things...
...first film Brooks directed) about a schlocky Broadway producer who connives with his nervous accountant to raise money for an awful Nazi musical so they can abscond with the funds when the thing flops. Add the best-possible modern substitutes for stars Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder--Nathan Lane as producer Max Bialystock and Matthew Broderick as nebbishy Leo Bloom--and Broadway's hottest musical director, Susan Stroman (Contact, The Music Man). Support them with a gaggle of Broadway backers so eager that one producer had to hold a lottery to decide which of his investors got the privilege...
...show was ready for a staged reading last April, Geffen had reluctantly dropped out owing to other commitments, so a new chorus line of potential backers was invited. By the intermission, Rocco Landesman, head of the Jujamcyn theater chain, said he was in. Others followed quickly. Broderick and Lane (who played Bialystock at the reading) were cast, though it took some convincing. Lane wavered because he felt his character had too little to do in the second act; he stayed only after Brooks promised to write a new number for him, which ultimately became an Act II showstopper called Betrayed...
...like a hawk," says Broderick. "And he picks up even the subtlest things." The cast got used to the occasional Brooksian outburst--"No, no, you're ruining my masterpiece!" he yelled on arriving at one rehearsal--and to his barrage of (sometimes bad) ideas. In one scene Brooks urged Lane and Broderick to try a bit of physical shtick when they exit the door at the same time. They tried it, then turned around to see what the master thought. "Stinks!" he shouted. They moved...
...cheesy compilation, filled with grainy footage and 1980s special effects, ended with the captain of Harvard's 1989 Championship team, Lane MacDonald `89 and the voiceover, "Rapidly becoming the home of the Hobey Baker Award, Harvard...