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...intelligence expected of cast members: "Respect your audience. Keep the bar as high as you can. Don't talk down to your audience, and don't go for the obvious joke." The troupe - whose early members included Mike Nichols, Joan Rivers and Del Close - became known for its brainy wit as seen in sketches like "Football Comes to the University of Chicago." The routine shows a coach's unsuccessful attempt to teach four students the rules of the game. But they can't seem to operate outside of academia, referring to the football as a "demi-poly-tetrahedron...
...that aren't clear, it didn't work out. Penner wrote as Christine Daniels for only a few months before reverting to his original byline. His death is being investigated as a suicide. Penner's editor described him as "capable of reporting on any number of topics with great wit and style"--a compliment any reporter could identify as highest praise...
Ardent fans of the novel claim that a lesser known actress should have been cast as the heroine, but many think that Portman will shine in a role that demands grace, wit, and sass. Horror story fanboys, eat your hearts out—before the zombies get there first. Then again, maybe Portman will come to your rescue...
...these sorts of unfortunate musical incongruities that the show—from the outset walking the line between theatrical wit and tackiness—stumbles, keeping it from being the completely charming piece of outrageous spectacle that it is meant to be. It is in instances when the music, directed by Alex B. Lipton ’11, competes too closely with the voices of the players or in moments when the confusing appearance of seemingly bored back-up singers provide a negative contrast rather than the overwhelming complement that was probably intended, that the production falters and the audience...
...thriller writer, with 25 million books in print in the U.S. But with her new nonfiction book, Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog (St. Martin's), Scottoline may well find herself compared to Nora Ephron. Scottoline's collection of essays from her popular Philadelphia Inquirer column, "Chick Wit," explores the female condition with a lively, original sensibility, which includes calling her former husbands Thing One and Thing Two. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Scottoline at her "girl farm" in Pennsylvania, where she lives with four dogs, two horses and two cats...