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...course, a hearty thank you is in order for my alter ego, Chris, without whose ID I surely would not have been able to live out a dream. Chris, if you’re ever in the Boston area, you are more than welcome to drop by Lavietes Pavilion and take in a Harvard basketball game as “Dan Fernandez.” I know the Crimson Crazies experience can never come close to the Cameron Crazies experience, but hey—at least you?...
...film version of Bridge and dreams of doing Miller's After the Fall onstage. "It's never been very well received, but I had an idea that I think can make it work." Whatever that is, you may be sure it will serve the play, not the actor's ego...
Foxx is best known as a comedian--on TV's In Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show, and he's appeared in half a dozen mostly forgettable big-screen comedies. But he started getting serious in 1999 with a bravura performance as an ego-driven quarterback in Oliver Stone's football drama, Any Given Sunday. "Chris Tucker beat me to the slot of big comedy," he says. "Chris Rock has his own slot. Will's got his slot. So do Martin Lawrence and all those guys. I got lucky in getting the chance to do something dramatic...
...earlier stories Abe has a superhero alter-ego, Captain Oblivion, who foils evil plots like the distribution of "blinkers," a device that allows the wearer to "stick ruthlessly to one narrow path in life." But by midway through the book both Capt. "O" and the futuristic setting recede in favor of meditative free-association comix and thoughtful travelogues. One of the pleasures of reading the book is in watching how the artist evolves from creating whimsical spoofs with a touch of poetic consciousness to the exact inverse of that...
...castigate Summers for his lack of tact. If there is any blame, it should be laid upon West for his shameless race-baiting. By accusing Summers of shirking his responsibility to racial diversity, West is attempting to obscure what this whole conflict is about: his bruised ego...