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...Second City opened a second theater in Toronto. When Sahlins scouted the city, he found not only an extensive talent pool, but also considerable local support. Sahlins enlisted Alexander, a Canadian entrepreneur who had briefly worked at a Chicago theater, to run it. The new venue "struggled for a while" as he remembers, but soon the outlook for Second City - and its brand of satiric comedy - changed forever. On Oct. 11, 1975, Lorne Michaels, along with fellow NBC employee Dick Ebersol and president of the network Herb Schlosser, launched Saturday Night Live, a genre-defining mix of music and sketch...
...fictional character. When Bridges sings Bad's wistful, weary songs - written by producer T-Bone Burnett and a group of other musicians, including Ryan Bingham, who has a small part in the film - you feel like this is a guy you might be lucky to find at your local honky-tonk. One of the first lyrics we hear from Bad is "I used to be somebody/ Now I am somebody else." Jeff Bridges has made a lifetime of being somebody else, and he just keeps getting better...
...chewing-gum brand, but backed down within hours of closing the deal. State and federal authorities had tried to block the sale, in part because of concerns about the size of a combined Wrigley-Hershey company. Residents of the town of Hershey, meanwhile, expressed outrage and even convinced a local judge to delay the sale, saying it would cause "irreparable harm" to the community...
...Cambridge was the 55th community to join the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, an international association of local governments that have made a commitment to sustainable development. Today, there are a few hundred communities involved in the United States and a few thousand internationally...
Obama has promised accessible and affordable health care for all—including the 47 million Americans who are uninsured. Help Obama help those who don’t have health care by donating your time, skills, or money to local clinics that provide health care to those in need. Doctors Without Borders is a network of 25,000 committed individuals in over 60 countries providing medical care to people are threatened by violence, catastrophes, and epidemics. Help Doctors Without Borders continue its work by giving someone an e-card or a Tribute Contribution in his or her honor...