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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...area, seeing how long it takes to drive from one point to another. The ATF assisted with laser sights. So far, police have made no arrests. An FBI profiler is working 14-hour days trying to pin down a suspect or suspects; police brought in the agent whose psychological sketch helped capture Thomas Lee Dillon, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to five sniper killings in southeastern Ohio. Franklin County's civilians have their own theories about who the shooter is--an angry loner, a reckless teenager, a bored aimless adult. What scares them most is the real possibility that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving in the Line of Fire | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Take a cast of edgy comics and stars-to-be--Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Dick and others--give them cameras and a network budget, and what do you get? The lowest-rated show of the 1992-93 TV season--and a classic of sketch comedy. The Ben Stiller Show was an attempt to reclaim Saturday Night Live's creaky format for the kids. But it reflected a Gen X ambivalence about youth culture as a marketing concept, as in "The Grungies," a sketch about a Seattle grunge band modeled on the prefab '60s act the Monkees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doomed Laughs | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Meehan wrote dozens of parodies, short stories and other humor pieces for the New Yorker. One of the more famous was a 1962 short story, "Yma Dream," a frequently anthologized tale of a strange cocktail party whose guests bear tongue-twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hit Man's Life | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Having already dabbled in theater, sketch-comedy and TV, this sophomore VES concentrator decided to turn filmmaker. The fruits of his efforts, “Blackman and Rushon,” debuted in the Adams Artspace on November...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spotlight: Robert P. Young '06 | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...after the game, where was all the entertainment—the brawls, the brothels and so on. The Hong Kong, yeah, you wish that were really sketch...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Woof Woof, Handsome Dan | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

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