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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...closing number: a group sing of "There's No Business Like Show Business" by dozens of the movie elite, including James Cagney, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, John Wayne and Elizabeth Taylor. As they concluded, someone noticed that the show had run 20 minutes short. (Implausible but true.) Cued from the wings, Lewis shouted to the group, "Another 20 times!" Some of the stars danced in couples; others wandered offstage. As the tone grew tenser, Jer announced "We're showing Three Stooges shorts to cheer up the losers." He grabbed the baton from musical director Lionel Newman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...patent leather handbag. But this doppelganger was not the lush, uncaring satyr Dino (Martin played that role the following year in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid). No, Buddy was more likely the Jerry Lewis id: the imperious, demanding, borderline-obnoxious personality Lewis displayed the same year on his short-lived, low-rated ABC variety show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...just been spending it. And all of a sudden they've woken up and found, 'I have $20,000 in credit card debt. All of a sudden I need to face consequences that are acute.' It's fundamentally healthy over the long term, but it's painful over the short term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Consumers Shop Differently Today | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...Wright dishes out of post to Lin for 3 but it cruelly rims out. Penn holds for one shot, Rosen bounces around, Reilly's 3 is waaaaay short, but it bounces off Harvard with 1.5 left. Inbounds comes to Dan Monckton who has a clear look and hits the backboard and nothing else. Not pretty. We're at halftime! 29-26 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD at Penn | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

...Back to action, Lin short on jumper over Gaines, Quakers push it and Harris fouls Gaines under the basket. Kenyi and McNally replace Housman and Pusar. Lin then steal ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD at Penn | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

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