Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...praise for her memoir, In My Mother's House, recounting the conflict and confrontation in the relationship with her mother. But in her new work, Chernin delves into the past not only to achieve a new understanding of herself through the narrative .She acts as both a critical story-teller and a passive character. Writing 20 years later she says," "Memory is a liar, a cheat, a thief, a pirate," which distorts and creates significance out of the past. Indeed, this original approach challenges the way memory, especially memory of oneself, continuously evolves...
...anyone whose notions of magic are bounded on the one side by the rattle and roll of Penn & Teller and, on the other, by the glitzoramas of David Copperfield, the Jay show will seem highly unconventional, perhaps even radical. "Other magicians are more prone to showing off, to letting us see how good they are," says Jules Fisher, who did the lighting for the show and who studies magic with Jay. "But Ricky's virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted...
...Truth teller is perhaps the kindest name that the industry would think to call the actress, whose strong will has often butted against Hollywood's tender backside. She was outspoken in her early plush years, when potent turns in Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment made her the movies' most promising -- and delivering -- young actress. She wore her wild streak in public: sex, drugs, locking horns with directors and co-stars. She turned down meaty roles in several popular films (including Broadcast News) and walked off another (A League of Their Own). Her star waned...
...Noah grows up to be a strong, willful, sensitive fellow with a great gift for acting, he should have a clue where he got it. And if he doesn't, a certain blue-eyed truth teller will let him know...
...underestimate, because it doesn't count Vegas regulars like the Pendragons (husband and wife magicians and body builders -- it had to happen). Nor does it count the acts that play the celebrity rooms several weeks a year, such as Harry Blackstone Jr., David Copperfield and, yes, Penn & Teller. Then there are the close-up guys who sit at your table and do tricks and jokes right in your and your date's collective face -- like the amazing Mike + Skinner. Throw in all the comics making condom jokes while sticking needles through balloons at the brick-wall comedy clubs...