And the good news is that he has only begun to explode. In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores. Their name may suggest a lack of intelligence, but make no mistake, the Flaming Idiots are wise men when it comes to comedy.
Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.
In a photographic essay, Bret Brookshire captures on film some of the singular relationship that exists between classical musicians and their instruments. Based on her physical appearance alone, Jean Stapleton is a natural to portray Eleanor. But it turns out that the accomplished actress' resemblance to the first lady doesn't end there. It extends to her idealism, her feminism, and even her awakening to activism. Here is his first-hand account of his weeklong campaign for the White House.