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Born in Corning, Iowa, and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Carson found his calling when he read a magic book. He dubbed himself the Great Carsoni and quickly learned - or found within himself, the secrets of conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy...
Given his history, one can't help wondering whether Minkow's reincarnation is a story of redemption or just another clever ploy. (Of course, there's not a lot of money in teaching FBI recruits.) A nerdy kid, the son of lower-middle-class parents in California's San Fernando...
Armstrong in particular embraced the challenge. As a kid, he sang show tunes at convalescent homes and veterans' hospitals, and he used the operatic concept as a chance to "figure out if I could take something like If My Friends Could See Me Now or Satin Doll and make it...
Then his high school sweetheart Sylvia, en route to rehab for her cocaine problem, abruptly drops off Ryan, 9, her son by another man. Shaken out from the shambles of Sylvia's life into Howie's barely more ordered household, Ryan inserts himself warily into what everyone knows will be...
"If there's one thing I learned, it's that if you want to interrupt the President of the most powerful nation in the world while he's delivering his inaugural address, it's going to cost you about $25." JEREMIAH JENKINS, Harvard Divinity School student who loudly booed Bush...