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Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Some Herald reporters really are clowns. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey made me an honorary member of Clown Alley for Friday's opening-night festivities in Boston […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Stephen Lynch looks like anyone else standing on Newbury Street. Only he's holding a Fresca. "Wow, I like Fresca," Lynch said recently while lounging in front […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Don't have a ticket to this afternoon's Game 3 Sox showdown at Fenway Park? Join the club. But there's no sense moping - our Sox need […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Johnny Depp jumps from role to role because he can. Depp is eclectic, lives in France, has two Oscar nominations - and we love him for […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy What are you willing to do to get free iTunes? Drink Pepsi? Wear Gap jeans? How about fighting terrorists and rescuing hurricane victims for the Army […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Our Sox are better than their Sox. And here's why: FAITHFUL FANS Red Sox: Loyal international fan base bought out all 81 home games before the […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Paris Hilton went from heiress to sex-tape infamy to TV fame, commercial pitchwoman and now to a topless photo on the cover of Vanity Fair, claiming […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Watertown homegal Eliza Dushku's Tru Calling isn't to be a good-luck charm for the New England Patriots. But she did a heckuva job working her magic […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Watertown native Eliza Dushku delighted fans yesterday when she said there was a Joss Whedon character she'd like to reprise even more than Faith, the action […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY A court debate this week about evolution boggles the mind of Joe Rogan. "I can't believe in 2005 that it's even a topic of discussion," Rogan […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY A friend just told you about this great new band. What do you do? For those of you not already clued into MySpace.com, try this experiment. […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy "Jimmy Tingle's American Dream," at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway, Somerville. Satirist Will Durst once observed that the one-man show differs from a typical stand-up comedian's act only […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY What do Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Gumby have in common with King Kong? They all made their screen debuts through the intricate art of stop-motion […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Don't expect jokes about the Emmys, hurricanes, politics or anything current when DJ Hazard records his new stand-up comedy CD this weekend at The Comedy Studio […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy When the Click Five held their first CD signing bash at Newbury Comics on Newbury Street last month, one employee couldn't help but pay close attention. […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy "Lost." Season premiere last night at 9 on WCVB (Ch. 5) Four stars (out of four) Do you like people who answer a question with a […]

Byline: SEAN L. MCCARTHY Fresh off its Emmy win as TV's top drama, ABC's "Lost" begins its second season tonight with a one-hour refresher course for new fans, new cast […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Before the Emmys can surprise or bore us tonight, we must love and loathe the celebrities on the red carpet. That goes double, triple and quadruple […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Hollywood's mourning period is much shorter for Hurricane Katrina than it was for Sept. 11, 2001. None of the iconic images from Hurricane Katrina - not […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Before the 2004 Boston Red Sox, before the "Miracle on Ice," there was "The Greatest Game Ever Played." "I think it's the greatest underdog story in […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY If you haven't seen a live comedy show this week, then what exactly are you waiting for? Cue the Boston Comedy and Movie Festival. The fest […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Hollywood bad boy Val Kilmer finally emerged from his self-imposed Boston bunker yesterday to Kiss and tell about his new flick, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," slam […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Lewis Black is flustered. What else is new? When Black phoned in from Atlanta two days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and destroyed southern Mississippi, […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Harvard may lampoon the world. But Emerson College produces or fosters one successful comic performer after another - Jay Leno, Steven Wright, Denis Leary, Andrea Martin, […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Gilligan is gone. The red rugby shirts with the white collars and the white fishing caps remain, but Bob Denver will never wear them again. Sure, […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY The weekday lunch crowd hustles and bustles about the Hub. All summer long, however, small groups have headed for the dock outside the John Joseph Moakley […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Bernard Lee has a weekly poker game with his Wayland neighbors. But that didn't get him a free seat at the World Series of Poker. Frequent […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Tammy Pescatelli started her comedy career in Cleveland, lives in Los Angeles, but couldn't be more excited to come to Boston. No matter what topic Jokers […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Ah, autumn. Seasons change, leaves change, and yet the latest crop of Hollywood movies manages to look all too familiar. We can picture how several of […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Videos don't mean diddy to MTV anymore, no matter what the "music television" network tries to prove tonight during its 22nd annual Video Music Awards ceremony […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Some sketch comedy troupes pride themselves on sharp writing, diverse characters or great chemistry. But for Chris Coxen and Nate Johnson, their two-man shows depend upon […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Dancing Baby, the "Ally McBeal" hallucination that became a favorite online time-waster of the 1990s, has grown up and become a striptease spokesmodel for the Gap. […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Since Sean Combs has changed his name - again - from Puffy to Puff Daddy to P. Diddy to Diddy, perhaps there is room for a […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY Sometimes, you stumble upon a TV show and can picture yourself on it. Such was the case earlier this year, watching WB's "Beauty and the Geek," […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY The answer: Four years. The question: How long after 9/11 will it take for Hollywood to start churning out flight-from-hell movies? Director Wes Craven brings the […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Two months ago, Watertown-based power popsters the Click Five were promising unknowns. They didn't even have a single out, yet industry buzz predicted major success for […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy If you saw Harland Williams on "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" late Tuesday night, you may not have recognized him. Williams, an affable, lovable […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy In this hot and humid month, when the days seem longer than they should, the nights still have potential. Especially if you head for the harbor. […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy The Famigliettis of Peabody have stretched their proverbial 15 minutes of fame into three hours. Richard and Diane Famiglietti and their four children appeared last year […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Of all the people selling cars on Boston TV stations this summer, two stand out. One is retired Chrysler chairman Lee Iaccoca, brought back into the […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Some prefer blondes. Some prefer brunettes. Still others prefer whips, spanking benches or women made up like horses - saddles included. To each his or her […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY When Greta Garbo and J.D. Salinger said goodbye to public life, they meant it. But so, so many other celebrities fail in their attempts to bid […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY When ColorStruck says it's boasting a cavalcade of comedy this weekend, it means it. A dozen comediennes are on the bill for the sixth annual Women […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Ben Jones, who played Cooter in the classic TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard," urged "Dukes" fans last month to avoid the movie version, which debuts […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Dane Cook has 274,354 friends. And that's just at MySpace.com, where the 33-year-old Boston comedian seems to get younger every week. Last week he was 28. […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY There are many ways to become a Blue Man. You could walk around the house covered in blue body paint, breathlessly waiting for a phone call […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy Poor Bob Geldof. His view that musicians can persuade politicians to end world poverty seems so shortsighted compared to Michael Luckman's belief - namely, that rock […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy LAS VEGAS - If you're not old enough to remember the Cold War but know that it had nothing to do with the temperature - and […]

Byline: Sean L. McCarthy LAS VEGAS - Flying into Vegas in the morning just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's too early for sinning in Sin City. Maybe Las Vegas isn't […]

Byline: SEAN L. McCARTHY In "The Aristocrats," 100 comedians tell the same dirty joke. Same premises, same punch lines, different set-ups. We don't need to retell the bit here. The […]