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...after less than a year as Heche's paramour, asked the actress and ex-girlfriend of Ellen DeGeneres to be his wife. According to Heche's manager, she has accepted. The couple met last summer when Heche was directing a documentary about DeGeneres' first out-of-the-closet stand-up comedy tour; Laffoon was the cameraman. Heche has frequently reminded the press that she was not gay prior to meeting DeGeneres, and she did have a two-year relationship with Steve Martin, who, according to several sources, is not a lesbian. No date has been set for the marriage, though...
...know how many of you have been to parties where the hosts have hired professional comics, but it kind of kills that "just chillin'" atmosphere. The woman doing stand-up was Lynn Harris, a friend of mine who was laid off from the Oxygen network. While she was performing, a news team from Oxygen was filming a story on a woman's search for a new job. Also, Lynn's boyfriend dumped her, and her dog died. "Maybe countrymusic.com is hiring," she said. I laughed the deep, hard laugh of a man who feels really bad for his friend...
DIED. "BROTHER" THEODORE GOTTLEIB, 94, deadpan performer of what he called "stand-up tragedy"; in Manhattan. In wartime Europe, Gottleib was carted to Dachau but used his family's money to buy his freedom from the Nazis and was assisted to California by Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
Senior Tim Philips had opened up the inning with a stand-up double that set up Hanson to tie the game at 2-2. Birtwell recovered his composure to strike out junior Eric Voelker to end the Tigers' inning...
...everything he's been doing for the past three years. It took about eight minutes. In an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Seinfeld shared the obligatory picture of his four-month-old daughter Sascha and chatted about his annual head-clearing cross-country drives. His stand-up material consisted of diatribes against people who ask other people to say hello for them; Jared, the formerly obese Subway-sandwich dieter; and the folks at Pizza Hut, who insist on hiding cheese in every possible crevice of their product. It was not a radical departure from his previous work...