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...mother and sisters against. They would talk about the chance to do something really thrilling. "Then we'd make jokes about the funny things we were going to do to the White House," says Michael. "We were planning to shake up the place. We'd laugh again, and then my mother might say, 'This is really profound.' And we'd reflect on how truly historic it would be. Then nobody would say anything for a while, until one of my sisters said to my father, 'What do you want to do?' And he'd say, 'I don't know...
Though the reaction against his musical foreshadowed Boston's heated reaction to Durang's plays many years down the line, the success of his show "upped my feelings of confidence and also reminded me how much I enjoyed making an audience laugh". Thus lifted from his slump, Durang wrote his next play, "The Nature and Purpose of the Universe" in a matter of days. This one act play, stretching Catholic theology and family drama to outrageous limits, is the first incarnation of the sophisticated satire which characterizes many of Durang's plays. "I felt like it was an enormous relief...
...Europe, strict rules limit what kind of data can be gathered about private citizens in such polling. Donna Hoffman, a Vanderbilt management professor who helped design the Nielsen survey, still ducks questions about how many people around the world use the Internet. "A lot," she answers with a laugh. "It's very big." That, for now, may have...
...when I heard she posed with a rubber chicken. This is what we need in this country." "There's really nothing like self-deprecating humor," Huffington says. "We need to have humor in politics." As the spectacle of Arianna Huffington unfolds, the Republicans don't know whether to laugh...
...years to come, when Ireland Eliesse Basinger-Baldwin grows up, her daddy will laugh when he tells the story of the day she was brought home from the hospital and he lost his temper with a free-lance videographer who was trying to capture the moment. But for now things are a little sour. Alan Zanger claims ALEC BALDWIN punched him in the face and knocked him over. Recounted Zanger: "He said, 'You got what you deserved.'" The police--not entirely trusting, perhaps, of this version of events--had Zanger put Baldwin under citizen's arrest before they would book...