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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...public by heavy-handed Portuguese colonialists. At 16 he ran away from his studies at a Catholic seminary and wound up in Dili, teaching Portuguese at a Chinese school and working as a government surveyor. He was fired when, in his first act of defiance, he threatened to punch his boss in an argument over racial discrimination by East Timor's Portuguese overlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cult Of Gusmao | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Sadly, the tempest in a tabernacle simply increased, loaves-and-fishes-style, the publicity for a lame, tame series--in which telling Satan "Go to hell!" passes for a punch line--that a merciful deity would have let expire silently by April. Which raises a now familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Gift | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Perhaps the main reason Dartmouth has beaten Harvard twice is the emergence of the Big Green's offense. Bredin (10 g, 30 a) trails only Ruggiero for points by a defenseman. Freshman Carly Haggard (20 g, 17 a) and junior Jen Wiehn (18 g, 17 a) also pack some punch. Wiehn scored the overtime goal at Bright Hockey Center in November...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Seeks Revenge Against Dartmouth in Semifinals | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

...they have big floppy feet, they try to fit too many of their kind in a car, I could go on and on." Visitors to the site can buy ihateclowns.com t-shirts, get free e-mail at ihateclowns.com, participate in chats about the evils of clowns, play an animated punch-a-clown game, review "34 reasons why you should hate clowns" (Reason #14: "A clown ate the dog that ate my homework") and even compose anti-clown poetry, such as this haiku: "Clowns mess up our kids / And anger all their parents / Clowns are evil things...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Pat Buchanan Hates Clowns? | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

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