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...satiric look at celebrity narcissism. It started when I had these Christmas parties and someone said, "Why don't you do a party like this where people get up and perform, and it's all loose?" And I kept saying, "You can't do that anymore. When you do a show headed by yourself, you must expose your soul, and if you don't have enough [pain], you have no recourse but to make it up. And that became the satire of it. I literally was thinking, "I can't do this show because I don't have enough pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Martin Short | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

With the three music rooms open in the fall and the pub­ open in the spring, Loker will provide students with a place to both practice and perform, according to Corker. The pub will include a built-in stage on which groups will perform...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faster Fly-By, New Decor for Loker | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

BILL CLINTON En route to the presidency in 1992, Clinton appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show to perform a saxophone solo. He played Heartbreak Hotel--and voters swooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Condi | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

...head butting Italy's Marco Materazzi in the chest during the World Cup final in Berlin, which Italy won; by FIFA, soccer's governing body; in Zurich. Materazzi, who Zidane said provoked him repeatedly, was suspended for two games. Because Zidane retired immediately after the final, he agreed to perform community service for three days in lieu of his suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 31, 2006 | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The final test was a mile walk. After racing to perform as many crunches in two minutes as possible, I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a run that rounded out Harvard athletics’ “Operation: Summer Fitness” preliminary test.Little did the Hemenway staffers know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, | Title: Working Out, Harvard Style | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

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