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...sketch, the characters stood on a darkened stage and told jokes, turning on flashlights whenever they spoke. In another, a character named XY (Rachel Marie Douglas ’09) explained her ambitions to become “the lightweight polyglot champion of the world...
Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...
...more so than Smelly. A Tokyo-based performance artist who idolizes Jackson, Smelly takes his stage name from an old nickname of Jackson's. Smelly has been a fan for 22 years, and he doesn't let Jackson's personal troubles - or lack of recent musical output - dent his worship. "Michael's private life is in shambles," says Smelly. "But that is life, which shows on the stage and in his music. Despair, egoism and karma are revealed and there for everybody to see. Compared to Michael, other musicians are hicks...
...bustle of excited chatting outside the packed church seeps inside where speakers, including former Czech President Vaclav Havel, take turns on stage...
...When Magor takes off to scour the room in search of beer, he is constantly stopped by fellow dissidents. Then, he drags four of his gray yet hairy buddies - one of them a former politician - on stage to sing an exile blues song, supposed to have been performed by a friend who is at home with fever. "What a hypochondriac! I told her, real artists die on stage...