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...never had to do before. From 6 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. (guess which times filled up first), the chapel will host 113 ceremonies on July 7, compared to the 30 to 50 on a usual Saturday. "This is the busiest day Las Vegas has ever seen," says Whitney Lloyd, director of marketing for the Chapel of the Flowers. "Everyone is panicked to get this day, thinking it will be a jump start for their marriage...
...adorable baby, and you start to coo, smile or make a face to elicit some kind of response. But even if you get a blank stare back, rest assured that the tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...
...Whitney also defends comedians of all political stripes, from fired shock jock Don Imus - "He's has been doing that crap since the beginning of time. Don't draw a line in the sand while a guy is walking over it" - to libertarian Bill Maher - "Don't agree with him, bless his heart. But he's hilarious." Comedians, Whitney says, are like beverages. "Everybody has different taste." (Whitney says he's Coors Light...
...Larry the Cable Guy character has become considerably less political since Whitney created him on the radio as a kind of southern Archie Bunker in the early '90s. "You want the biggest fan base you can get," says Whitney. "There's a lot of comics who just like to make their friends laugh. Audiences like seeing a comedian who doesn't talk to the back of the room. He talks to the front of the room...
...Whitney is passing through tinseltown, but he says he has no desire to stay. "I like wide open space. I like the people in small towns. They're friendly. They're genuine. They're not in the business." But there are signs the small town of Hollywood is ready to call Whitney a local. As I leave the comedian so he can take his next meeting, with a director looking to woo him for a project, a crisply suited and apparently ageless Don Johnson, who is lunching nearby, strolls over to say hello. Actually, what Johnson says...