Word: prankster
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...years, at his peak winning 80% of the viewing audience. Eventually, TV grew up--anyway, it grew older --and by the mid-'50s Berle's innocent vulgarity had given way to more domestic, less frantic fare. But his ghost still haunts the tube. The Fear Factor daredevils, the Jackass prankster-masochists, the talk-show mutants who will do anything for a laugh or a shock--all are the nieces and nephews of Uncle Miltie. --By Richard Corliss...
...sniper calls the Rev. William Sullivan of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Ashland, Va., above, raving, "I am God." In garbled speech, the caller refers to the D.C.-area shootings as well as a crime in Alabama. Thinking he has a prankster on the line, Sullivan hangs up and does not report the call...
...answer turns out to be both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay...
...answer turns out to be both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay...
...victims can be used in many different kinds of guns, including hunting rifles and military weapons. Another bit of evidence surfaced late Tuesday: a tarot card with the words, "Dear Policeman: I am God" scrawled across it. Did it actually come from the sniper or from a prankster? That's one more mystery for investigators to ponder. A side note on the tarot card: those familiar with tarot card meanings say that whoever left the card at the crime scene probably doesn't know much about tarot or how to read cards. The death card doesn't actually signal...