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...Burt Reynolds inability to covert our knowledge of his washed-up career into a slimy on-screen persona (what this implies about our judgment of people and stars is somewhat disturbing). Unfortunately, Johnson's acting skills aren't quite up to par (Tin Cup...never mind): his comic timing stinks and sinks one scene after another, not disastrously, since his character's smoothness is meant to fall short of his lust...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Back to Black | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Don't Forget Your Sunscreen | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

DIED. GARY MORTON, 74, film and TV producer and husband of the late Lucille Ball; of lung cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Morton was a popular stand-up comic when he met Ball on a blind date. He went on to produce The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, among others. The couple were married nearly 28 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...year-old who has returned to high school after 32 years as "a boozer, a user and a loser." Just what did the network find funny? The name of the school's African-American principal, Mr. Blackman? The catatonic geriatric behind the wheel of a car? Maybe Sedaris' single comic affectation, a grotesque overbite? Take Mom's advice: Avoid Strangers with Candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers With Candy | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Last week this urban Robinson Crusoe, an unemployed comic nicknamed Nasubi (the Japanese word for eggplant), emerged from his Truman Show-like hermitage with the subtlety typical of TV in Japan: he was led into another room, the walls collapsed away and a crowd roared with delight. "You mean, everyone has been watching my naked body all this time?" he asked. In fact, his genitals had been covered by an electronic eggplant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tokyo Truman | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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