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Many of his classic bits--a cheesy Vegas comic playing the London Palladium, or Religions Inc., his satire of Christian commercialism--sound a bit moldy today. But his blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames...
DAVE GROHL IS A BIG TEASE. With a mop of dark shaggy hair covering his face and tight black pants hardly masking his ultra slender body, the leader of the Foo Fighters recently wowed a packed crowd at the Worcester Palladium with both his onstage antics and his immense musical prowess. For over an hour, the band-featuring Grohl on guitar and vocals and occasionally drums, Nate Mendel on bass, Taylor Hawkins on drums and guitarist Chris Shiflett along for the nationwide tour-rocked hard, splicing and dicing most of the songs from their 1999 album, There is Nothing Left...
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...Fighters will play the Worcester Palladium...
That means profitable opportunities to turn plays--especially the kind of blockbuster musicals Lloyd Webber writes--into movies and also, as Disney's The Lion King demonstrates, to turn highly promoted films into money-spinning plays. Lloyd Webber's new real estate includes the London Palladium and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, famous large venues ideal for launching plays with transatlantic appeal that could morph into movies or television. Nor is Lloyd Webber's empire building likely to stop here. He and his partners are looking to buy up other major theaters in Europe...