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...normally subversive late night material out of respect for the assembled guests. "What does a President do when he retires?" Ferguson said at one typical moment. "You could look for a job with more vacation time." The best moment of his act came when he appeared to go off script and called Cheney "kind of pervy," yielding no noticeable reaction from the vice president who sat onstage...
Later, at a chapel in Yonkers, he hugged two young disabled girls, before moving to an outdoor rally with seminarians and Catholic youth. As the crowd chanted "Viva il papa! Viva il papa!" (Long live the Pope!), Benedict seemed almost like his charismatic predecessor John Paul II, going off script, and saluting from every corner of the stage...
...word—except sexually,” he said. “We’ve known each other for almost ten years. He wrote my ‘Undeclared’ episodes and we’re just really like-minded, especially when it came to this script.”The pair is also working together on the next Muppets movie. Judging by the hilarious puppet show his character puts on in “Sarah Marshall”—a sort of depressed Neil Diamond-esque vampire musical—Segel seems a perfect...
...first adaptation job,” he said. “To have the book as a way to flesh out ideas is great not only for me as a writer but for the actors too. And you can plagiarize legally. I personalized the script for my own taste.” Green’s personal touch is evident through his encouragement of improvisation and abandonment of the formal script. He readily welcomes “mistakes.” “I like it when people mess up their lines” he said. These surprising elements...
Laura M. Togut ’08 definitely has chutzpah. “A Little Night Yiddish,” written and directed by Togut, features traditional Jewish songs in their original Yiddish book-ended by scripted English sequences that she authored. This work has been the culmination of Togut’s Yiddish studies at Harvard as well as her passion for Jewish culture. “I feel like I am going out with a bang,” she says.Togut began studying Yiddish her freshman year in part to satisfy Harvard’s language requirement...