European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse June faces stars and stripes Page 41 sols Hammond Sharp and sober actor still impresses after 12 years of impressions to tar t Annor by Larry Neumeister the associated press new York during a record 12 years on saturday night Darrell Ham mond has provided pitch perfect impressions of Donald Al Arnold even Jesse Jack on this with a Yankees Cap atop his the comedy vet eran works in a less familiar voice his Hammond is onstage at the comedy cellar in where he has performed regularly during his Long run on Hammond follows former week end update Host Colin who minutes after finishing his own set sounds like More of a fan than a please do Jesse and Sharp ton Quinn Calls leaning for Ward like an impatient Hammond swapping his slight Southern drawl for some Jackson before distorting his voice into a blustery soundbite machine to do Sharp i did not Call Giuliani a he says in Sharp tons familiar i said Bozo could have done just As Good a Job As Giuliani then he does generating laughs by ending every thought from the self promoting real estate Mogul with a pause and two words the apprent president draw ing cascading other voices follow in rapid Suc cession Ronald Homer Dick North korean Leader Kim Jong i and finally president a Man Hammond de scribes As larger than life and a i voice that Hammond returns to at regular j its a Good night because Ham mond is easily scoring the 10 Good laughs he wants each to measure what he has placed a tape recorder on when Hes not doing the voices of his own soft tones a Man whose vocal victims generally offer their Praise might be above this quest for but somebody forgot to Tell the Blu eyed Hammond Hes and his hard Knock past haunts his College dont be taking examples from he warns after noting his Grad Point average in i was drunk for 32 the crowd laughs but Hammond is i did not Call Giuliani a i said Bozo could have done just As Good a Job As Giuliani w Darrell Hammond As Al Sharpton by just about any Hammond has reached comedy top but by Hammonds Mea he remains a struggling i want to be i dont think in Hammond and he Means at that a bit later he says Ive always been pretty Good but not As Good As i want to the hunger is not so much for Fame or Fortune As it is to perfect an Art form that brought him Sal vation once his dreams of professional baseball killed off at the University of Florida by his in ability to solve the Riddle of a Well thrown looking at his other abilities for a new career he dusted off voice skills he had developed before age 10 when he played with consonants and vowels so he could mimic the characters in a Christmas Carol or Porky pig that All folks the Detour took him from dirt diamonds to a radio Job and later to 18 years of developing comedy in his Down time he helps peo ple Battle just like oth ers helped him overcome Cigar alcohol and Ive never really gotten into it How bad it really i think the Story is it was an ugly he he still wears something he started doing after the 1991 death of a close Friend left him so devastated that he resumed Abus ing alcohol and drugs after a six year it was the Way it the theatricality of that kind of death and what they do at he i drank i make a few years he was spot Ted at Carolines comedy club in Manhattan doing a single Clinton line and was at age to the cast of saturday night hed been rejected twice once on the he want sure he would in the second half of his first he was impersonating Ted Koppel and tossed in an and and Sud Denly realized he could make i want just reciting the he i actually became the character for one despite his he remained sad and cloaked his pain in his he hit Bottom at a really big Job for a really big Cli ent in Las when he barely knew where he As soon As he walked off Hammond was escorted to the air port and entered a detox sober for several Ham mond has lost weight and adopted a fitness philosophy of slow improvements that Hes applying to his Ive become fascinated by the idea that its really achievable to make two or three Small improve ments in a week and by the end of Stephen comedian Darrell Hammond listens to a conversation after performing March 26 at the comedy cellar in new the its 150 he Hammond still talking about some Day having his own act in Las vegas or becoming a character actor in but he also says he might someday dedicate himself full time As a Volunteer helping others overcome in starting to Wear he maybe Ive decided to get Over it i know in enjoying it All of a sudden i remember the i perform in the leagues of what i its i dont have to indict the world Singer Thalia expecting baby Clarkson takes love seriously Rimes surprises wounded vet mexican pop Star Thalia is pregnant with her first the Singer actress is expecting a baby girl with husband Tommy the former chairman and ceo of Sony music in publicist Kim Jakwerth con firmed to the associated press on tuesday in new the baby is due in has sold More than 12 million Al bums worldwide and acted in mexican soap she has a cloth Thalia ing line for Kmart and her weekly radio the Cone Jon Thalia radio debuted on Abc radio in Espanol earlier this Kelly who rails against a former flame in her new song never says Shes never been in i love my friends and the grammy winning Singer and original american idol tells Elle Magazine in its july put i have never said the words i love you to anyone in a romantic i am very conservative in my thinking when it comes to relation she love is something you work it Doest come you Are have to work at Loving someone when they Are being an she adds people think there just going to meet the perfect dont be i her comments speak to the singers which makes Clarkson stand out from Many of today de pop Iraq Veteran Peter Reid has gotten a boost from Leann a 2004 mortar attack in Iraq Anbar prov Ince left a Navy partially Para Blind in one Eye and dependent on a motorized he also suffered a brain in and bits of Shrap Nel remain in his head and Reid haunt left his Palm House for months because it took two people to lift him into and out of his now Hes look ing Forward to shopping trips with his because of a gift from last week in the 24yearold country Singer handed Reid the keys to a new wheelchair accessible Rimes boy band goods scooped up Platinum and Gold autographed posters and even a key to the City All went Bye Bye Bye at an auction in As creditors liquidated the assets of boy band impresario Lou hundreds of bidders packed a Down town building for the chapter 11 bankruptcy the tuesday auction was populated mostly by Middle aged not the screaming Young girls who drove Pearl mans bands to Multi Platinum Banks Are hounding him and his Compa Nies for More than according to court he also is being investigated by the irs and state Pearl mans whereabouts Are he Hast been seen or heard from in nor has he responded to multiple stories and photos from wire services
