Word: montreal
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...course, the young guns have plenty of time to learn. And even Kournikova, a would-be movie star, may be learning a bit of discretion. In Montreal for a tournament two weeks ago, she eschewed all talk about boyfriends, tattoos or fashion. Instead, attempts to bring forth the infamous Anna attitude were met with flat, seemingly programmed remarks: "I'm just here to play tennis." Says Leand: "She's been told to tone down. She's trying to change the image she's cultivated." And that includes abandoning her old managers at IMG. Advantage International, which represents Kournikova...
Lessons can go both ways, though. And the older players may be picking up attitude points from the younger ones. In the semifinals in Montreal between Novotna and Sanchez Vicario, Novotna seemed veritably Venusized. During the heated second set, which went to a tiebreaker, the usually elegant Czech flipped the umpire the bird. Sanchez Vicario eventually won the match. And the tournament? It went to another old lady: Monica Seles...
Everyone at this year's Just for Laughs festival in Montreal--the comic equivalent of the PBA championships--designed his or her act for the television execs in the audience. The art of telling jokes died with the comedy glut of the '80s, and in its place has grown not the rarefied, cerebral, arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there...
...scene in Montreal in late July included lots of late-night shots of whiskey, 100 comics being ignored by the public while Emmanuel Lewis (TV's Webster) signed autographs and veteran dork-for-hire comic Kevin Meaney dropped his fake high voice to brag about a development meeting. The business of comedy was summed up by festival standout Mitch Hedberg, who was introduced as a comedian "seen on David Letterman." He said, "Four million people watch that show, and I don't know where the hell they are. I believe more people have seen me at the store. Which would...
While everyone else forced an angle into their act, Hedberg stole the Montreal Festival by standing still and telling jokes. He drawls in a bizarre slacker cadence, delivering lines like "This shirt is dry-clean only. Which means it's still dirty" and "I think Bigfoot is blurry." He keeps his eyes closed and his long bangs flopped over his face. "I don't like to connect with the crowd," he says. "I find if you look at people's faces, you see a disappointed face." In fact, if he goes three or four jokes without a laugh, he starts...