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...sold their souls to the devil to become rock stars. It was a hell of an experience, though: being in Hollywood, coming out with a new sitcom, being on the same lot where Soul Train taped. Luckily, when the show didn't last, I got my old job on Saturday Night Live back. (See the top 10 post-SNL careers...
Paul Shaffer is finally stepping out in front. Before landing the gig as David Letterman's bandleader and sidekick on Late Night (now called Late Show) in 1982, the native Canadian navigated a long, winding path to fame: from playing music in Toronto strip clubs to joining the original Saturday Night Live band and cast in the '70s - and along the way co-composing the Weather Girls' hit "It's Raining Men" and starring in a short-lived sitcom. His memoir, We'll Be Here the Rest of Our Lives, is chock-full of tales from the 59-year...
...ceremony was indeed goofy and thought-provoking, the traditional 60-second acceptance speeches left little room for explanations. If you were left wondering why anyone would invent a brassiere/gas mask or experiment with panda feces, then you were in luck. The (free!) The Ig Informal Lectures were Saturday at 1:00 PM in MIT Building 10, Room 250, 77 Mass. Ave. Winners and "several" laureates explained their award-winning research and took questions...
...Saturday was really rainy, and the rain has a tendency to kill off the breeze a little bit—it was lighter than it would have been otherwise,” Santangelo said. “It was shifty because it was coming off all the buildings in Boston, and it was hard to predict the wind shifts...
...members of the body, Fort Worth prosecutor Alan Levy and forensics expert Aliece Watts, both of whom had written letters to Perry in support of Bassett continuing as commission head so their work could continue without interruption. Scheck compared Perry's failure to reappoint the three to the infamous Saturday Night Massacre of 1973 when President Nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal. But Perry's office said the changes were "business as usual" and the governor added, "Those individuals' terms were up, so we're replacing them...