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...Danylo Struk, who was my roommate many years ago when we were undergraduates at Harvard (Class of 1963), and who became a lifelong friend ("lifelong," alas, is the precise word here), amounted in himself to a one-man civilization - poet, scholar, Ukrainian patriot-in-exile, teacher, translator, editor, literary critic, art collector and chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto...
DAME EDNA, A.K.A BARRY HUMPHRIES AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Star of Broadway one-man show Dame Edna: The Royal Tour BEST PUNCH: Ran an ad in the New York Times that read, "You don't have to be Jewish to adore my show!"--a pointed reference to Mason, who performs down the block...
JACKIE MASON, A.K.A. JACOB MOSHE MAZA AGE: 69 OCCUPATION: Star of Broadway one-man show Much Ado About Everything! BEST PUNCH: Said the ad betrayed the Dame's insecurity: "How do you like his nerve...the truth is, he's jealous that I'm selling out every night while he's playing to half houses...
...Miles are the global currency right now," says Jim Davidovich, who runs United Airlines' frequent-flyer program. "It's not the euro, it's the mile. And it's hot." So hot that Randy Petersen, who began InsideFlyer magazine as a one-man operation in 1986, now has 32 employees and several websites, including Flyertalk.com This is where you go for buzz on the best promotions and the boasts of frequent flyers who make Phillips look bush league. "There's one guy out there with 13 million miles," Petersen says...
Making audiences feel weird merely for laughing is a sign of something quite wrong, or quite right; here it's mostly the latter. Titus is based on Titus' one-man show Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding, and like many stand-ups turned TV stars, he's a limited actor. But the buff, brush-cut Titus has more to offer than affable my-wife-won't-have-sex-with-me jokes; his every sarcasm and tic betrays an intense, coiled anger. The pilot--in which he and his brother confront their father's possible suicide (Dad's been in his room four...