Word: libbing
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...sure, Short also trots out his expected gallery of TV characters - the nerdy Ed Grimley, the old-codger songwriter Irving Cohen - and an ad-lib segment in which Short's most tiresome character, Jiminy Glick, does an interview with a surprise guest from the audience (Channing Frye of the New York Knicks the night I was there) nearly brings the show to a stop. For that matter, the whole self-referential, show-about-doing-a-show conceit (see The Drowsy Chaperone and off-Broadway's [Title of Show]) is in danger of becoming a clich?...
...goon" line is not just a clever ad-lib on John's part. It shows that Champagne is attentive to the arcana of the Beatles' biography. In their youth they were fans of BBC Radio's The Goon Show, whose stars, including Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, all recorded comedy albums produced by George Martin. It was his connection to the Goons, not his work on jazz albums, that first endeared Martin to John and the others. Another number in the show, "Eleanor Rigby," which takes place in the wreckage of postwar Liverpool, has a cratered, post-nuclear look reminiscent...
...sumé whose highlights are Mixed Nuts and Death to Smoochy, Jon Stewart won't be confused with Jimmy. But big-screen chops aren't essential to the job; Johnny Carson was a five-time winner as Oscar host. Besides, the new guy has miles of charm, glib ad-lib-ability and the planet's smartest comedy writers. If Stewart can't make this year's Oscar show the wittiest in memory ... well, the Academy could turn next year to another cool dude over at Comedy Central. Paging Stephen Colbert...
...Hollywood directors have such a distinct signature--or, rather, two of them. One part of Soderbergh's brain makes can't-miss caper films and weepie dramas (Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich) with the town's priciest talent. Another part is indelibly indie: he will shoot an ad-lib HBO series about lobbyists (K Street), or remake a mystical Russian sci-fi art film (Solaris). Not everything works, but it's more than cool that he tries...
...well as abstinence - will do wonders for Kennedy's mental and physical health. But the British papers immediately sealed Kennedy's career as party leader. The Sun said that Kennedy was not only an alcoholic but "a fool," and even the Independent, the paper politically closest to the Lib Dems, accused Kennedy of having "a trust problem" for having publicly lied for years about his drinking. Lohan, by contrast, is getting sympathetic press coverage for her forthright confessions - not to mention great publicity for her singing career. A double standard? Let's hope so. There are perfectly good reasons...