Word: thompson
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...number. "We love you, Liza!" "You look great, Liza!" the fans yelled out whenever the room was in danger of quieting down. They cheered her costume changes, laughed knowingly at the coy references to her failed marriages, cooed nostalgically as she reminisced about her mom and her "godmother," Kay Thompson, whose 1940s nightclub show she pays tribute to in the second act. When she closed the show with "New York, New York" and followed up with an encore of her mother's sentimental holiday number, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," they died and went to heaven...
...discussion.”The creative process at the show is based on collaboration among the writers and actors. Jost compares it to living in dorms. “We all share rooms with cast members,” he says. “My roommate is Kenan Thompson. It’s kind of like a dorm set up almost, with everyone grouped together and you stay up all night and try to write something.” This encourages actors to write, and occasionally writers to act. Downey has been in front of the camera, both...
...Pitchfork “Top 500 Songs” Book—Apparently, in the rush to become our generation’s Rolling Stone, the indie-crit tastemaker inadvertently bypassed the righteous Lester Bangs/Hunter Thompson years and landed somewhere in the mire of that magazine’s bloated, self-parodying culture-factory era. And when did the hipsters get coffee tables? 4. The Google Android Phone—What do you want for Christmas, Johnny? An iPhone? Well let me tell you what Uncle Cliff’s going to do for you. No, don?...
...They make up all sorts of excuses about why they don’t want to hire you,” said Dan Bright, who was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder and sat on death row before his appeal resulted in his release in 2004. John Thompson, who spent 18 years in prison for first-degree murder before DNA testing on blood evidence exonerated him, said that the violence prisoners experience could contribute to their eventual reentry.“Prison is the most violent place you know,” he said...
...Moran admits. But things are looking up for the fledgling Web site. As of last week, GradeFund claimed over 800 users, 34 of them with Harvard affiliations, according to Michael Kopko. GradeFund also scored its first corporate sponsor in ZooToo.com founder and president Richard Thompson. An entrepreneur himself, Thompson said that he does his best to support young people who act upon their ideas such as Kopko with GradeFund. “Do it the day you come out of college,” he said of starting your own business. “There’s no better...