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...these two stories get you totally down, however. For every punk like Sprewell, there's a class guy like Hakeem Olajuwon. And for every complainer like O'Neal, there's a stand-up guy like Michael Jordan. But it seems like the good guys are getting older, and the younger generation doesn't have the same attitude. Their behavior is turning people off to basketball. That's the real injustice, John Feerick...
...contestants, went through make-up and, after many comments on my resemblance to actor Peter Gallagher, walked onto the set. I was immediately assailed by the art-deco-neon-overload-meets-industrial-constructi on set, complete with a live band, stacks of old books as props, local stand-up comic Greg Fitzsimmons as host, two attractive brunette "hostesses" (Heather and Shonda) in tight pastel blue outfits and a giant brain sitting in the center of the set. "`Jeopardy' on acid," I thought...
...they were just a polished stand-up choir, that would have value in itself. But there's more. There are the human values," he says...
...life composed of second acts bring off a grand finale? Sonny Bono did just that. His opera buffa culminated in a Palm Springs, Calif., funeral in a Roman Catholic church, attended by three wives, his gay-activist daughter, conservative G.O.P. hierarchs from Washington and stand-up eulogists getting laughs from leather-clad bikers listening in from the streets and a worldwide audience watching live on cable TV. Even when his life finally got suddenly and fatally out of control, his timing was impeccable. He died like a Kennedy, on skis, against a tree. And if that's funny...
...veins in public just yet. When asked if he's been seeing anyone romantically after breaking up with his longtime girlfriend Shoshanna Lonstein last year, Seinfeld--after ribbing the reporter who dutifully if reluctantly posed the question--responds only with an old joke from Larry David's stand-up act: "I'd like to start a family, but you have to have a date first." Having already sold his L.A. home, he's planning to move back to New York City and open up a small production company, more about which he won't reveal. Beyond that, the tour...