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...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
...Till help came in the form of HRE-eeee...
...time by retelling beloved old knee slappers. Her son, now grown, comes home for a visit, throws the door open, and just the way he used to 15 years ago, looks her in the eye and asks, "Anyone home?" Her adult kids still lock themselves in the bathroom till the dishes are done. Leftovers? Sure, but we roar for more...
...open rehearsal--billed as an improvisation workshop--came at the end of Bloom's talk-till-you-drop day in Cambridge, courtesy of the Learning From Performers Program. She spoke about jazz with the Niemann Journalism Fellows over lunch, and Jazz Band members over dinner, as well as with WHRB and me. She proved herself an able advocate of the powerful pleasures of improvisation...
...Next week Chuck Berry turns 61. But last week rock's black prince saw his time come again. It began with a standing ovation at the New York Film Festival for the world premiere of Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, a slick, irreverent documentary with enough bop-till-you-drop golden hits to leave the springs broken in every Lincoln Center seat. On Tuesday Berry was back in his hometown of St. Louis to preside at the movie's local opening. On Thursday he showed up in Los Angeles to have his legend buffed with a star...