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Sharief al-Homsi shivered, clutched his arms and pretended to go through Syrian regime withdrawal. Standing before an audience in Damascus, he was telling a joke that would have been unthinkable until just a few weeks before, when President Bashar al-Assad was suddenly ousted after more than five decades of his family’s oppressive rule. “We need…
In the 1990s, as her career was on the rise, a 20-something Posey told an interviewer that she was working on a screenplay. She was interested, she said, in writing roles for older women. “I love that I said that,” Posey said when I brought it up. “I’ve always known, or felt, that I would…
When I called Wood in late January, he was midway through a mini-tour through Wyoming, Colorado and Oklahoma, driving to six Air Force bases in nine days. Before that, he attended the premiere of “Love, Brooklyn,” in which he has a supporting role, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A few days…
The Indian internet is a boisterous place, not always for the faint of heart. But sometimes India itself turns fainthearted in the face of the internet. Or livid, when family values are at stake. Until a couple of weeks ago, Ranveer Allahbadia, 31, was riding high as a podcaster, influencer and all-around successful hyper-bro —…
Harrison Greenbaum Through March 22 at 7 p.m. at Asylum NYC, 123 East 24th Street, Manhattan; asylumnyc.com. Harrison Greenbaum regularly tells jokes at the Comedy Cellar, but he is also a successful magician who has toured the globe. Starting in 2022, Greenbaum spent nearly two years as a starring act in Cirque du Soleil’s New…
MICHAELS Because Chevy said his own name and because it was popular, he was the first person to emerge. Subsequently, it’s where most people broke out: Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and to this day it continues. [When Chase left], I thought, You can’t follow Chevy. Any other guy doing it would be seen as a…
My parents had friends and attended and threw parties, but even so, there was something about adulthood that struck me as serious when I was a kid — adults spent their days getting their oil changed, filling out paperwork, going to funerals — and the sheer silliness of “S.N.L.” seemed charmingly, enticingly at odds with…
His first movie with Mr. Allen was the comedy “Play It Again, Sam” (1972), written by Mr. Allen but directed by Herbert Ross. Mr. Roberts played a businessman who had had “the foresight to buy Polaroid at 8 1/2” but is too busy to notice that his wife (Diane Keaton) is starving for attention. “Play…
“We probably won’t fall through,” Tom Green said as he stepped out onto an expansive frozen lake that sits along his bucolic 150-acre farm in the hinterlands of Ontario, periodically stamping his foot to be sure. I followed his lead, bundled in a polar-rated Baffin snowsuit he’d wisely insisted I wear for this expedition. A…
Joel Paley, a dancer, playwright and director who wrote the book and lyrics for “Ruthless!,” an award-winning Off Broadway musical about an ambitious girl who will do anything — including murder her rival — to star in a grade school show, died on Jan. 11 in Milford, Conn. He was 69 and lived in Redding,…
