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...walkthrough of Harvard Yard and precede the premiere of the production, which will run for three weeks in Cambridge before proceeding to do a weekend showing in New York and another in Bermuda. Stiller’s celebrity poses no impediment to those doing the roasting, though his wit might. “[We] are very excited to roast Stiller, though it could be tough because he’ll be able to spin most jokes back at us,” wrote Hasty Pudding producer Evan W. Eachus ’08 in an e-mail...
...Molly Ivins, who died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer, was one of the most notable transplanted Texans of recent years and, like her good friend the late Gov. Ann Richards, she came to embody a certain kind of Texas woman - passionate, funny, her wit folksy but sharp, sparing no one, not even herself...
...sudden passion for half-wit humor? Well, National Lampoon has also produced a sometimes tasteless but usually funny series of movies. The biggest: National Lampoon's Animal House, which netted the firm $13 million. Lots of businessmen can giggle over that...
Simon on first meeting seems more like an accountant than a comic wit. Although he can be a deft public performer, the private man is a thoughtful, earnest conversationalist, never a raconteur using companions as an audience. He realizes he is considered aloof even by those who know him best, and admits, "I'm always having to tell myself, 'Get back into the conversation.'" When he does get off a good line, it is a throwaway, almost sotto voce, and rarely with a stranger. Director Mike Nichols, who staged four of Simon's plays, recalls attending one in which...
...years between Hollywood's make-believe headlines and the horrifying reality of Somalia, Hepburn as actress and woman seemed an emissary from a finer world than ours. She taught, by example, what a lady was: a vessel of grace and gravity, ready wit, eldritch charm: a woman whose greatest discretion was to hide her awareness of her splendor. She refused to be tyrannized by her own beauty...