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...think it's very pleasant. I don't think it's productive," said Kraakman, who was preparing for a 2 p.m. class when the students interrupted...
...sessions begin at 11 and usually run till 4 a.m. On one recent occasion the group that gathered around his kitchen table consisted of Jimmy Brogan, pale, scholarly-looking, wearing a blue baseball cap, a stand-up comedian admired by other comedians; Ron Richards, also a comedian, wry and pleasant; and Chuck Martin, a young stand-up and the only one not on Leno's payroll, sitting in like a rookie playing with the first team. (Leno will be hiring a staff of six or seven writers for the Tonight show -- which will include some of this group as well...
They are also the industry's longest-running creative partnership; the Guinness Book of World Records says so. Thirty years ago this month, Ivory began shooting The Householder, which Merchant produced and Prawer Jhabvala scripted from her novel. Columbia Pictures bought the rights for a pleasant piece of change, and the company was launched. But not into the movie mainstream. "Someone else would have gone and made a house in the Bahamas and lived happily ever after," Merchant says. "But we didn't do that. We put the money into our next film." And so on and so on -- dollar...
...campus where a cappella and pre-20th century classical are the musics of choice and where cutting edge rock to too many undergraduates is synonymous with Squeeze, it is a pleasant surprise to see two solid student rock groups who can create some carnage on a Saturday night...
Crazy for You was greeted with all but universal cheers last week, less for what the show is -- a pleasant evening of well-loved songs and imaginative choreography hitched to a slow narrative, obvious jokes, completely undefined characters and mediocre performances -- than for its shameless retrospection, its bland assertion that Broadway's future lies in its past. The second act contains two gratuitous slurs on the "concept" musicals that have dominated the past decade: a visual slap at Grand Hotel and a verbal slam toward Les Miserables. Yet those shows have precisely what Crazy for You so painfully lacks: propulsive...