Two plays to make us laugh, and ideas for Memorial Day weekend

Source: MinnPost.com

Park Square Theatre is producing its first-ever Neil Simon play, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” a behind-the-scenes romp at a fictional 1950s TV comedy show. The characters were inspired by Mel Brooks, Selma Diamond, C ...
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... And jailer, butterscotch milkshake to top off my last meal

Source: The Staunton News Leader

FISHERSVILLE A fight on the grounds of a Fishersville motel started with words before...- 10:18 pm Virginia could make sure people in mental health crisis get emergency care in a safe place ... MOUNT SOLON Two hundred and thirty days ago they were t ...
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Egypt Press Applauds 'Free' Landmark Election

Source: Rantburg

[An Nahar] Egypt's press on Thursday hailed the country's first presidential election since a popular uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2 ...
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Jerry Lewis flick 'The Ladies Man' screens at Cinematheque

Source: Cleveland.com

No, it's not the Tim Meadows "Saturday Night Live" spinoff from 2000. It's the 1961 comedy starring Jerry Lewis (he also co-wrote and directed) as Herbert Heebert, a man working in an all-girls boarding house in Hollywood. 9:45 p.m. Friday, May 25 a ...
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The Intouchables

Source: Rolling Stone

Like Jerry Lewis, this French buddy comedy is a huge hit with Gallic audiences. Senegalese actor Omar Sy, whose sublimely funny and touching performance won the French Oscar, is spectacular as Driss, an ex- ...
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13 candidates turn up the heat in inland congressional race

Source: Los Angeles Times

Anthony Adams is one of 13 candidates running in California's 8th Congressional District, but he's the only one who isn't a Democrat or a Republican. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times / May 17, 2012) LAKE ARROWHEAD — A hiss rose from th ...
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Decades later, Ypsilanti soul band finds its single treasured as a Masterpiece

Source: MLive.com

As Washtenaw Community College guitar instructor John E. Lawrence looks in a crate of old 45s, he says he never expected his own music would someday have the same appeal of classic Detroit artists such as Stevie Wonder or T ...
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Shots fired in East El Paso neighborhood

Source: KFOX El Paso

Residents on Jerry Lewis Way, in East El Paso, said they were shaken when they heard several gunshots in the area. Police who searched the area said they found five shell casings and were still looking for two more. Neighbors said they heard at le ...
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Dems the party of 'no,' Coburn backs George Allen, Collins' wedding registry, Warren's heritage flap having little effect, Mandel returns donations

Source: The Politico

( swong@politico.com or @scottwongDC) With assists from Kevin Robillard and Jonathan Allen THE ROGERS REPORT: DEMS THE PARTY OF ‘NO’? -- Speaker John Boehner and Republicans have long represented the party of “no” when it comes to hiking taxes. Bu ...
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Review: Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin

Source: The Austin Chronicle

One of the few Hollywood directors to ever make the transition from animation to live-action filmmaking, Frank Tashlin's career is staggering in its scope: He was a comic-book artist for the Los Angeles Times, an animator ...
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