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...sold more CDs than Gwen Stefani and Coldplay last week, without humming a tune. DANE COOK'S Retaliation is the highest-charting comedy album (No. 4 on Billboard) since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1979. Though his success surprised most of the off-campus public, "I kind of felt the rumblings of this happening," says the Boston stand-up star, whose college fans throw listening parties for his albums. Next Cook plays "in-your-face, misogynistic, rude cook Floyd" in the feature-film comedy Waiting. Sounds like a guy whose wait is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Even Funnier Than Mariah | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

...California is not alone. More than 50 million people describe themselves as at least occasional poker players. Millions turn on the TV each week to watch one of eight scheduled poker shows--to say nothing of the 1 million who will tune in to ESPN's broadcast of this year's World Series of Poker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Gambling Becomes Obsessive | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...championship trophy?s upcoming visit to Fairfield, has taken up the task. I don?t know. The nouveau BLOHARDS seem more taken with ?Tessie,? a lyric the Royal Rooters used to sing to rouse the crowd back at the turn of the last century. Sox management unearthed the tune, and the story behind it, a year or two ago, and Dr. Charles-that?s Charles Steinberg, the magician of community relations for the Henry/Lucchino gang, the wizard behind the wonderful ring-presentation festivities at Fenway?s Opening Day-arranged for the Boston band Dropkick Murphys to make a new recording...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the BLOHARDS | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...phrase Eco has embraced in his academic work—than a loose ended and formless one. Its diversions do offer small delights. (I was tickled to recognize a Marlene Dietrich song Eco had planted in the text. He replaced the lyrics with Latin, and it actually fits the tune: “duae umbrae nobis una facta sunt, infra laternam stabimus, olim lil marleen, olim lili marleen...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

Morgan R. Grice ’06, a government concentrator in Winthrop House, is editorial chair of The Crimson. She is writing a song to the tune of “just the two of us” to sing with her mini-me, and will perform in the Editorial Office this fall...

Author: By Morgan Grice, | Title: Me and Mini-Me | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

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