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Later this year, Ray and Saliers will appear with actress and comic Whoopi Goldberg in the movie Boys on the Side. Goldberg plays a lesbian folk singer who runs into Indigo Girls in a Tucson, Arizona, bar. Together, they all sing a few Indigo Girls songs along with a cover of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Saliers and Ray enjoyed working with Goldberg ("Technically, her voice is only a little above average," says Ray, "but she's got soul and can really deliver a song"), although they disagree on whether more films are in their future. Says...
Last week newspapers pulled Doonesbury comic strips that suggested the Catholic Church once sanctioned same-sex weddings -- not the first time this has happened to cartoonist Garry Trudeau. Indeed censorship of the comics has a long and proud tradition...
Lane and Sabella, veterans of the Guys and Dolls revival on Broadway, make up in dynamite comic camaraderie what they may lack in marquee value. "I have no idea if they considered major motion-picture stars for our parts," says Lane pensively. "Do you suppose they were thinking of the Menendez brothers?" Lane loved the work, which involved mainly "acting silly for several hours and trying to make the directors laugh." Irons also enjoyed the spontaneity of the process. In animation, words come before pictures, so improvising actors help develop characters and dialogue. "It's extraordinary," Irons says...
...artist and a writer, except when I was 14 and wanted to be a baseball player." That aberration passed, and Stamaty went on to earn a fine-arts degree from Cooper Union in New York City. After illustrating several children's books in the 1970s, he produced comic strips for the Village Voice in New York. In 1981 he started Washingtoon in the Voice and the Washington Post, which eventually syndicated the strip nationally. He has since published two book-length collections of Washingtoon and has seen it become the basis for a cable-TV series in the 1980s...
...Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio show and an exhaustive skein of one-night stands. Chester Gould and Al Kapp put him into their comic strips. Movies and TV beckoned. For a decade, Lindley Armstrong Jones was the maestro satirist of the Hit Parade -- and a crucial influence on such musicaliconoclasts as Stan Freberg, Ernie Kovacs, Tom Lehrer and Frank Zappa...