Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there are 50 sketch groups in Toronto alone. The cleverest of them, like L.A.'s sketch-comedy and a capella troupe the But Franklies, try to expand the genre. The rest are busy perfecting Limp...
That proves only that Kieslowski was also an entertainer. The ambiguity and poignancy of each sketch show that he was always an artist. In Decalogue, One (Thou Shalt Have No Other God but Me), a math professor lives with his bright, loving 11-year-old son--a small boy who asks big questions about God and death. The father believes that everything can be measured, even the density of ice on the local pond. It will take a catastrophe to teach him that his logic has holes. But the episode's true poetry is in scenes...
...dancer with Radio City Music Hall's Corps de Ballet, she was last seen walking through her home in a nightgown one morning last week. Police found blood drops outside the house and noticed that the suspicious Guerin was missing himself. A New York City detective who saw a sketch of him on television realized that he bore a striking resemblance to a Kenneth Kimes, who had been arrested just the previous day with his mother Sante on an outstanding fraud warrant from Utah. The detective had a good eye. "Manny Guerin" was apparently an alias for Kenneth Kimes...
...actually barricaded by steel. In the only major breach Steven Davis, an engineer at Wright Industries, a subcontractor that built one of the machines that manufacture the razor handles, was nabbed by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office and pleaded guilty to trying to sell a sketch of the Mach3. On Friday he was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison...
TIES TO MATCH To raise funds for the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the Stonehenge menswear company turned some sketches, bottom, from sports celebrities (Jerry Rice, Dick Vitale, Lesley Visser, Joe Theismann and others) into tie patterns, top. Can you match the artist to the sketch to the pattern...