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...pack recently). Ariel Fund, a small-cap value fund, isn't nearly so stringent about screening but does exclude companies that focus on making or selling tobacco, generating nuclear energy or manufacturing handguns. The ultracheap Vanguard Calvert Social Index makes a decent core holding, Parnassus Equity Income looks for stand-up corporate citizens while buying stocks that pay high dividends, and Pax World Balanced gives investors exposure to bonds as well as stocks. So go ahead, make a little money--and feel good while...
...autobiographical shows, which can occasionally be dishy and inspired (Elaine Stritch at Liberty) but just as often superfluous ego trips (Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends). The real growth industry in the past few years, however, has been the puffed-up comedy monologue, from the traditional stand-up of comics like Jackie Mason, Bill Maher and Rob Becker (Defending the Caveman) to the more crafted, character-driven monologues of such performers as Lily Tomlin and John Leguizamo...
...DVDs were a long time coming because of negotiation over the supporting cast's payment. They make up for lost time with hours of features: an hour-long making-of documentary, cast interviews, deleted scenes, bloopers, stand-up outtakes and a chat with the real-life inspiration for Kramer. The "Notes About Nothing" feature subtitles episodes with all the trivia you could want and some you don't. (The nine months between the show's conception and its airing is the same amount of time it takes for a baby to be born. Thank...
...much that Sykes feels the need to say it everywhere: a new sitcom on Comedy Central, Wanda Does It; a book, Yeah, I Said It; a 31-city comedy big-venue stand-up tour, The Cotton T-Shirt Tour; a big role in this summer's Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda; a gig as a prank-calling puppet on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers; and a recurring role on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also, she fixed up her website real nice...
Sykes worked for the National Security Agency and started doing stand-up after entering a Washington talent contest in 1987. She quit her job five years later to move to New York City, where she met Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told...