Search Details

Word: improve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...spectacle is especially debilitating because the movie was already made right the first time, when Simon wrote the screenplay from a Bruce Jay Friedman story. The director was Elaine May, who previously had been Mike Nichols' partner in the '50s' most renowned comedy improv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller Loses Heart | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...released on Sept. 25. George Carlin: All My Stuff shows Carlin progress from counterculture provocateur (the seven words you can't say on TV) to curmudgeonly uncle to angry village elder railing about war and golf. Robert Klein: The HBO Specials 1975-2005 rolls out the groundbreaking, brainy, improv-based style that has influenced nearly every stand-up who has followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime: Oct. 1, 2007 | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...other members of the cast. What are some highlights? LB: I work a lot with Lord Capulet. My father [John Greene] and the nurse [Dipika Guha] are both not Harvard students. Dipika is a special student and John is just in the area and does a lot of improv, and they’re both so great. It seems like this is really bringing a lot of people together from a lot of different places and not just the same cast of characters. CH: Having done a lot of Harvard theater, I love it in shows when...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hyperion Escapes Early Demise | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...talk show [The Chevy Chase Show] that I went to Fox with was an entirely different concept than what was pushed on me. I would never do it again. What I wanted had a whole different feel to it, much darker and more improv. But we never got there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Chevy Chase | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

...TOWN AND BEYONDPoehler, who graduated from Boston College (BC) in 1993, grew up in Massachusetts and says the city was where she got her start.“I kind of started improvising there at a sketch group called My Mother’s Flea Bag, which was an improv group at BC, and so that’s kind of when I first got the improv bug, so I have to kind of thank BC for that,” she says. She would later go on to be a founding member of New York’s renowned...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Blades’ Star Poehler Reveals Comedian Trash-Talking | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next