Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sponsors include Richard Friedman, owner of the Charles Hotel, who is providing free rooms for the performers. Other sponsors include AT&T, the Boston Herald, the Boston Phoenix and radio station WZLX. Tickets for the benefit, which went for as much as $500, sold out yesterday...
...each comes closer to seeing it from the other's perspective, the bond between them grows. Steven has not told his father, a well-known doctor, that he has dropped out of med school. For weeks, this deception provides fodder for his nightly routines at the Gas Station, the comedy club where he is struggling to get his start. But the line is crossed when his father sees him at the club on a night when he'd hoped to be "discovered" by a talent scout. He breaks down, unable to continue. Confronted from a personal perspective, his life ceases...
...Polish jokes, she reaches into her own experiences and gets some real laughs. (Gazing dubiously at the gifts circulating at a bachelorette party in the audience, she quips, "I don't want to do anything intimate with anything that's got a 90-day warranty.") Later, at the Gas Station, her cracks about her own family and sex life bring down the house...
...film isn't merely a showcase for Hanks and Field. The minor characters are vital to the plot and theme; the lineup of stand-up comics at the Gas Station is odd and intriguing. One man dresses as a nun every night; another, an overweight high school history teacher, endures hissing disdain from the audience--all for the sake of his family, his students and comedy. Romeo (Mark Rydell), the self-concerned club manager, tries to prod and cajole his comics to the top. These characters are left behind as Steven and Lilah rise closer to success, and we feel...
Harvard is among the developers about to try out the new system. The University may not replace the Gulf station across the street from the Freshman Union with a hotel until it works with the state agency to remove several leaky gas tanks and contaminated earth...