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...pretend to be typical people in our fields or representative, so don't blame our fields for us," he said to audience laughter...
...truth there is pain; in pain there is laughter. That might be Brooks' motto, in comedy and life. Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-bred, Jim was a lonely child whose father had left home. "In I'll Do Anything," says Platt, "I think he is unconsciously, or consciously, investigating what might have happened to him had his father not left, if he had not been raised by his mother and sister." After New York University, he worked for CBS as a newswriter, then in 1966 moved to Los Angeles to make TV documentaries. Three years later, he created the series Room...
...coach's mother takes her to church and teaches her Christian traditions forgotten during the Soviet era. Oksana's new sense of stability shows in her skating and the laughter that bubbles up when she is asked to describe herself: "A girl who can't sit still...
...like my father," Hamill writes. "I didn't want to be a drunk." Yet drinking meant manhood. It was, he later decided, "the sacramental binder of friendships . . . the reward for work, the fuel for celebration, the consolation for death or defeat. Drinking gave me strength, confidence, ease, laughter." Hamill as a boy was obsessed by the comics, including Captain America, who began as mild-mannered Steve Rogers but then drank a magic serum that transformed him into a brilliant pile of muscles, the scourge of Nazi saboteurs. "The comics taught me that even the weakest human being could take...
...Francis Collins may not have been ready for Saturday Night Live, much less prime time, but the University of Michigan students screamed with laughter all the same. As the last class of the semester was ending, the 43- year-old geneticist slipped an acoustic guitar from its battered case and in a reedy tenor began warbling lyrics of his own invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore...