Word: rasputin
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...takes place in a public speaking class taught by the eccentric and slightly irreputable Orville Goodpecker, who advertises donuts to attract newcomers like Ben (Andy Riel) and then gives him a single, individually wrapped donut. Goodpecker teaches his class with dictatorial control until Lt. Falk (Greg Luzitano) and Evangeline Rasputin (Kristy Leahy) come to arrest him for illegal flyering, but he is saved by the inept but heartfelt speech of his student Isadora (Lara Krepps), who secretly has a crush on him. Though Isadora’s final speech fails to be the hilarious setpiece it should have been...
...more than his resume. He happens to be very good, particularly at setting a mood with his rumbling baritone. (Eminem declared 50 his favorite rapper and made him the first signee to his Shady/Aftermath Records label.) Also, perhaps because he's escaped death more times than Rasputin, 50 is shockingly upbeat, both in conversation and, at times, in his music. "Why not?" he asks. "I'm finally getting to do exactly what I want...
...bigoted Southern sheriff in the movie In the Heat of the Night; in Los Angeles. Over a 57-year career in film and TV, Steiger played a variety of memorable characters, including Marlon Brando's hoodlum brother in On the Waterfront and historical figures such as Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s and '80s, but he made a comeback in TV movies. DIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, the Disney animator...
...spent the past seven years in a Tokyo jail cell. In court one day recently, facing murder charges in connection with, among other crimes, the gas attack, he bobs his head up and down, looking tired and confused. His hair, once wild and frizzy, is now cut short, his Rasputin-like beard trimmed respectably. Every move he makes is closely watched by his remaining disciples?wide-eyed men and women who flock to the courtroom to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "He never did what you expected him to," says...
Presidents that attended Harvard: John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josiah Jed Bartlett, Bill Pullman. Presidents that attended Yale: Warren G. Harding, Warren G, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, O.J. Simpson, Emperor Hirohito, Henry VIII, Manuel Noreaga, Rasputin, Bill Maher...