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...meetings, Marco asks us for ideas, and we bore him with personal stories that have nothing to do with any of the characters but serve as therapy for us. I have learned so much about my fellow writers' demented parents and deceitful exes that I am certain when this ends none of us can be friends. After we've wasted time on that, Marco gives us a really bad premise, such as an episode in which the mother-in-law comes. We all pretend it's a good idea and spend most of the day figuring out funny stuff that...
That's when Marco Pennette, the creator of the show, informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...
...Fists,” including the hit single “Stricken.” Corrosion of Conformity and Dope will open. Avalon. 6:30 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $32.50. (MEE)Benevento/ Russo Duo with Benzos. In preparation for returning to the recording studio in early 2006, keyboardist Marco Benevento and drummer Joe Russo will perform songs from their album “Best Reason to Buy the Sun.” The New York band Benzos joins the duo onstage, with songs from its recently released debut album “Morning Stanzas.” Paradise Rock...
...18th century houses along the Amstel River has been reborn as seven hotel rooms, called the Lute Suites. Dutch designer Marcel Wanders contributed to the simultaneously modern and classical dcor with pieces like his white neo-baroque SoapStars bathroom accessories. And Italian glassware firm Bisazza hired Marco Braga to reinvent a Venetian tradition in the entrance hall of Florence's Una Vittoria Hotel. On a computer, Braga designed a 54-hue floral mosaic made of sintered glass cubed tiles...
...Most of the capacity crowd over 10,000 strong at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas last Saturday hadn't even come to see Chavez fight Johnson. They were there for the co-main events: Sugar Shane Mosley versus Jose Luis Cruz and Marco Antonio Barerra versus Robbie Peden. The Chavez/Johnson fight was the undercard. It was clear that Chavez was going to win the fight. Into the early seconds of the 11th round, he had thrown more than 900 punches, more than 400 of which had landed, a significant number to Johnson's head. Until then...