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...bishop in 1989, Akinola developed Nigeria's hewn-from-the-forest capital, Abuja, into a great Anglican center. Later, he habitually sent bishops to non-Christian areas to preach the Gospel. Muslims sometimes responded violently, but the church gained a presence in the north. Notes the Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, a well-connected Episcopal rector who counts Akinola as a friend: "They give witness at great cost, and it obviously touches people," who become Anglicans. The denomination leaped to the forefront of Nigerian Christianity, and Akinola became a civic as well as a religious voice, denouncing the country's plagues...
...always loved girls that age, who are really fearless and who haven't really discovered boys yet, and they're really comfortable with their bodies. It's one part me as a little kid. And honestly, it's one part a small tribute to Gilda [Radner], to her Judy Miller character. I just remember thinking, That's what I wanna do--jump up and bang against the door and be like a whirling dervish a little...
When I was 22, I began doing musicals in Toronto, near where I grew up. My first show was Godspell, with people like Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy and Dave Thomas. The musical director was Paul Shaffer. It was around this time that the improvisational group Second City came to Toronto from Chicago to form a sister company. Everyone was so excited about it, but I didn't even audition. It felt like too much pressure to get up on a stage and just come up with funny stuff...
Amanda Bynes didn't need a car or a Kobe when she turned 16. She wanted a starring role in a film, and she was prepared to be patient. She has been called the new Lucille Ball and the next Gilda Radner, thanks to her deft, daft turns on the Nickelodeon skit-com series All That. Nick's Kids Choice awards named her Favorite Television Actress three years running. But, she says, "I want to be looked at as an adult actress. That's why I didn't want to do a big movie when...
There's something touching about funny people when they drop the comedy and get serious. The deaths of Farley, Radner and John Belushi loom large over the book, and the sense of wartime camaraderie among the big stars of the early 1990s--Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and David Spade--is often heartwarming. But there's anger in these voices too. Relying on some Darwinian theory of comedy--survival of the funniest--Michaels pits the cast members against one another in a bitter competition for air time, which once drove a shaking Victoria Jackson to stand on a chair...