You may have played hopscotch. You may have played jumprope. You may have never played "make me laugh or die."
Well, the Wayans brothers, creators of the humor-or-consequence game, never seemed like part of the hopscotch crowd.
Marlon weighs in: Wayans makes 'Sense' of success
Ever wonder what people in the corner are saying about you? If so, you'd be a perfect candidate for the medical experiment conducted in "Senseless." The experiment magnifies your five senses 10 times. Just don't get greedy.
And that's the problem for Darryl Witherspoon (Marlon Wayans). After using all possible resources, such as giving blood several times a day to pay tuition and support his family, Darryl jumps at the chance to do an experiment that pays $3,000. Wayans' 'Less' isn't always more
"Sunny days/Keeping the clouds away/On my way ..." airing on ABC. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Sesame Street. Sony Wonder and the Children's Television Workshop joined together to produce "Elmopalooza!," a musical and comedic spectacular featuring the muppets and a slew of major celebrities, musicians and entertainers.
'Elmo' tickles fans of 30-year-old 'Street'
After arriving at the Blind Pig on Friday at 11:15 p.m., Jim Carroll entered the stage to a mass of people sitting and standing cheering his name. This eclectic crowd of people, with age groups from 19 to 50 and up, seemed rather anxious to hear work from his as-yet-untitled new fiction and poetry books due out around September.
Carroll holds court at poetic Blind Pig show
Tom Selleck is one of the executive producers of a new CBS comedy series, "The Closer," along with Ed Decter and John Strauss. Together, these three have shown that as executive producers, they make good actors. What could, and should, have been three episodes has been squeezed together into one hackneyed half-hour of mostly worn-out jokes and tired character roles.'The Closer' opener fails to seal deal
Author Tom Andrews is no stranger to the streets of Ann Arbor. This award- winning author of two poetry books, titled, "Hemophiliac's Motorcycle" and "The Brother's Country," jumps from poetry to prose in his creation of "Codeine Diary" to relate his story as an hemophiliac.A2 author fuses emotions in prose
What is it about those youthful, appealing movies that defy kids' attention spans? Surely the slapstick humor can set off their giggling, but why do they care about the characters' lives, and their fates?
Usually, kids love kid movies because they can relate to the central characters. Either the plot is centered on the conflicts among youths, or, in the case of the latest fun-for-the-whole-family film, "The Borrowers," miniature people scampering through the walls of normal-sized human beings.'Borrowers' lends worthy entertainment
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