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...golden girl du jour is Scarlett Johansson, back after her performance in the brilliant “Match Point.” Johansson plays Sondra Pransky, a gawky American journalism student as out of place in London as Allen’s on-screen alter ego, the cynical magician Sid Waterman. Not unlike Allen himself, Sid is searching for easy-to-please deep-pocketed clientele (which he finds in the stilted British upper class), and befriends Sondra along...
...more than a hobby. The Galchenkos are easygoing and tons of fun to be around, but when it's time to work, something shifts behind their eyes and they get weirdly intense and laser-focused. "They have personalities that are very, very unpleasantly obsessive," says magician and juggler Penn Jillette (he means that with nothing but affection). "When I was around them practicing, they would do stuff that no one had ever done and then say, 'That sucks...
...really been encouraged,” he says, referring to a lack of on-campus opportunities for performance comedy.Nonetheless, the Demon ComedyFest will assemble those scattered members of the on-campus performance comedy community. Attendees of the festival will get to see an improvisational comedy group, a magician, and even a couple of rare stand-up comics.Last year, the event took place in Sever Hall and attracted a capacity crowd of 200. To accommodate the festival’s growing audience, it moves to Science Center C this year.Not coincidentally, the event is held during Prefrosh weekend...
...chosen to exploit America’s youth. We are, evidently, the only ones being asked to make sacrifices—both of our lives and from our pocketbooks. The measure raises the debt ceiling by more than the $781 billion required by the administration’s prime magician, Secretary of Treasury John W. Snow, and it leaves promises of future rises—as early as next year—looming menacingly over our heads. All this, while Senators Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.), Robert Menendez...
...actually a send up of easy symbolism; it could easily be allegory or self parody. While there is a self-consciousness to the weirdness here, I can’t give the benefit of the doubt to Korine when his most popular directorial work is a TV special for magician David Blaine.Marshall is next seen running on a track with two burqa-clad groups. But despite the apparent differences between the two and Marshall—dressed in a skintight red outfit—they are all the same underneath. Korine then includes a long close-up of one woman?...