Subject: Entertainment (Page 14)

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle.

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

(1957 – ) English novelist, essayist & screenwriter

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

(1909 – 1986) Australian dancer, actor, theater director & choreographer

Chozen is a truly bizarre blend of programming as it mixes prison and rap culture with Revenge of the Nerds.

film reviewer

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian

We are not used to playing the kind of venues that don't have a drain in the middle of the floor.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of “Law & Order” in my apartment.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I saw a poster for Mission Impossible III the other day. I thought: It’s not impossible if he’s already done it twice.

(1980 – ) English comedian & novelist

I went to the cinema, and the prices were: Adults $5.00, children $2.50; so I said, “Give me two boys and a girl.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. What so proudly we hailed. Of thee I sing.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I opened the show with this line: “I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! … Oh, wait, sorry, that’s tomorrow night.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician