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Everyone at this year's Just for Laughs festival in Montreal--the comic equivalent of the PBA championships--designed his or her act for the television execs in the audience. The art of telling jokes died with the comedy glut of the '80s, and in its place has grown not the rarefied, cerebral, arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there...
...80s, before moving to Rimini, he lived in neighboring Jefferson County, where he at first stayed in a broken-down cabin in exchange for caring for the owner's many dogs. He made a habit of harassing the local sheriff and his deputy, complaining they were incompetent. In 1983, according to undersheriff Tim Campbell, Weston began saying that Campbell and his brother were covering up an abduction of a four-year-old girl. Campbell does not have a brother. Weston was probably retaliating for being questioned in the case. He was then living about 2 1/2 miles from where...
...play may conjure up images of gold-chain-draped record executives illegally buying off disc jockeys with envelopes full of money and drugs. Those days have mostly gone, along with the deejays who were caught taking under-the-turntable payoffs during the payola scandals of the 1960s and '80s. (The Justice Department, however, recently began a probe of illicit payments allegedly made to radio stations by Latin-music giant Fonovisia Records.) Pay-for-play is done out in the open, with the money going to the station, not the deejay. And it's all perfectly legal. Under FCC rules, such...
After a rough decade in the '80s, the man who wrote the Theme from Shaft! has been rediscovered as Chef! ISAAC HAYES has found a whole new group of fans as the voice of the world's smoothest school-canteen worker on the cartoon South Park. But along with that newfound popularity comes attention from those Hayes might not want to encourage. A court in Georgia has ordered that Hayes pay an old debt of nearly $90,000, plus interest. The order was originally obtained in 1989, but the creditor knew Hayes' career was in a slump and didn...
...Like the Amish, they wear black and stick to a preferred mode of transportation: Harley-Davidsons. Unlike the Amish, they rely on beatings to keep members in line, and "going to church," a euphemism for their weekly meetings, has nothing to do with godly behavior. In the 1970s and '80s the Pagans racked up charges of murder, extortion and drug dealing, learning discretion the hard way after federal indictments decimated their ranks. Still, with about 600 members, the Pagans are the largest biker gang in the East, and they haven't given up their cause: general mayhem. The Pagans indicted...