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Your first stand-up tour in five years kicks off next month. What should audiences expect? I'm trying to tweak the show so that it's not simply an hour of stand-up. And I'm trying to add some more elements to it, which I'm working on now - doing something to justify a $30-ticket price. I trust I'll be able to rise to the occasion and put on a good show so people hopefully feel like, "Well, that was fun. I'm glad I drove out here...
...just the greatest set ever; I mean I was f___ing killing. And I even said, "The red light's on - I gotta go," and people were like, "NOOO! STAY!" So I finished and stepped off the stage and thought, Wow! I'm a genius. And then probably the next 16 times, I just bombed. I couldn't understand it - "Wait, these are the same jokes I told last week." People just hated...
...less-than-expected 47% from last weekend to pull in about $20 million. In 10 days, the polylingual action drama has amassed $73.8 million in the North American market and another $60 million abroad - which, in any language, means boffo. The South African sci-fi thriller District 9 was next with a $10.7 million weekend and a $90.8 million three-week total. For the first time in, well, quite a while, the films in the top four box-office slots were all R-rated kill-fests...
...National Institutes for Health has renewed funding for the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) with a $18.1 million grant over the next five years.The grant focuses on bolstering the interdisciplinary study of AIDS and HIV, by bringing together scientists from fields such as economics, ethics, immunology, and virology.“It’s been a terrific source of funds for us to launch new efforts and be able to help recruit new faculty,” said Bruce D. Walker, director of the Harvard CFAR and a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard CFAR...
...Quad may no longer have to worry about dropped calls or spotty cell phone service, starting tomorrow. A “cell on wheels”—a trailer containing signal transmission and reception equipment known as a COW—has recently been set up next to Cabot House’s Barnard Hall, located on the southwest corner of the Quad. The “visually obtrusive” COW serves as a temporary solution for providing reliable AT&T wireless service in the Quad until a permanent antenna is installed next fall, following city...