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  Powells.com Interviews - Dave Barry
Dave Barry: Everybody has the same reaction when we tell them about the story: "Oh, that's a great idea." Because it is. It's one of those ideas that somebody was going to have sooner or later and do something with.
Dave Barry: As far as the original is concerned, we did not try to be academic purists and write in the style of J.
Dave W.: In Boogers Are My Beat, you note: "Maturity is a crippling handicap for humor columnists, like height for jockeys or ethics for lawyers." It's an interesting line in relation to your work in general, but certainly to Peter Pan, in particular.
www.powells.com /authors/barry.html   (3388 words)

  
  Barry, Dave - MSN Encarta
Barry, Dave, born in 1947, American humorist and writer best known for his weekly newspaper column, which is syndicated to more than 500 newspapers.
Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York, where his father was a Presbyterian minister.
Dave Barry Turns 50 (1999) is one such book, offering a humorous retrospective of the cultural history of the baby-boom generation from 1947 to 1974, including commentary on popular music, television shows, consumer products, and the Cold War.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610419/Barry_Dave.html   (403 words)

  
  Dave Barry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barry was born in Armonk, New York, where his father, David Barry, Sr., was a Presbyterian minister.
Barry's initial meeting and courtship with Michelle were, however, widely thought to have been dramatized in an epilogue to his novel Dave Barry in Cyberspace, but with names changed: Barry is cast as 'RayAdverb' (an anagram of 'Dave Barry'), and Michelle is represented as 'MsPtato'.
Barry has defined a sense of humor as "a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dave_Barry   (1356 words)

  
 Book Dave Barry Speaker Keynote Speaking Engagement, Corporate Event - Your Booking Agent for Dave Barry
Dave Barry was born in Armonk, New York in 1947, and has been steadily growing older ever since without ever actually reaching maturity.
Dave Barry went to Haverford College, where he was an English major and wrote lengthy scholarly papers filled with sentences that even he did not understand.
In 1996, Dave Barry married Michelle Kaufman, a sportswriter for the Miami Herald.
www.grabow.biz /Comedy_Magic/DaveBarry.htm   (652 words)

  
 Dave Barry-Dynamic Speakers Bureau
Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald.
Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information.
Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll.
www.dynamicspeakers.com /davebarry/davebarry.html   (221 words)

  
 Dave Barry - Elegy for the humorist. By Bryan Curtis
Next, we move to Barry's third rule of comedy, which is to change subjects as frequently and jarringly as possible, often beginning with the second sentence of the article.
Barry returned with a wicked 4,000-word story in which he gently pointed out that Ed Koch's Manhattan was a carnival of urban decay and drug paraphernalia, too.
Dave Barry definitely had a serious side, not only shown by some very serious columns written after his parents died or son got hurt.
www.slate.com /id/2112218   (1628 words)

  
 Dave Barry
Dave Barry is a humor columnist for the Miami Herald.
Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll.
Judi is Dave Barry's assistant at the Miami-Herald.
www.gypsyrover.com /daveberry.htm   (873 words)

  
 Dave Barry -- Libertarian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dave Barry is a libertarian, and has been one for years.
Dave Barry is, of course, one of the most popular humorists in America, and certainly the only libertarian whose daily life was made into a popular television comedy ("Dave's World," CBS), although there are no doubt many other libertarians out there whose lives would make great TV sit-coms.
Dave Barry's Pulitzer Prize-winning column is published all over the place, and every time you enter a bookstore you are amazed to discover that he's written another dozen or two books.
www.self-gov.org /barry.html   (567 words)

  
 Dave Barry, personal appearances,dave barry
Dave Barry's offbeat humor column ran in The Miami Herald from 1983-2005 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988.
Barry's work is a mix of stream-of-consciousness wisecracks and chortling commentary on home life, politics, low-flow toilets and other vital issues of the day, often with Barry himself as the butt of the joke.
Barry is no relation to the author David Barry (also born in 1947) who wrote Women and Political Insurgency: France in the Mid-nineteenth Century.
www.barberusa.com /humor/barry_dave.html   (356 words)

  
 Dave Barry - Libertarian
Humorist Dave Barry is a libertarian, and has been for years.
Barry was even more explicit about his political beliefs in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (April 23, 2005).
In late 2004, Barry announced that he was taking an indefinite leave of absence from writing his weekly column, effective January 2005, to spend more time with his family.
www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/dave-barry.html   (944 words)

  
 Dave Barry
Dave Barry in Cyberspace and Dave Barry Is From Mars AND Venus
In 1996 Barry married Michelle Kaufman, a sportswriter for the Miami Herald.
Barry has written a number of short but harmful books including: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States.
www.brooksinternational.com /dave_barry.htm   (363 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Dave Barry - Books: Meet the Writers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the introduction to Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down, he addresses the desirability of his job as a humor writer and syndicated columnist.
Yes, Barry is juvenile at times -- but he has achieved the kind of success that can only come from combining a juvenile mind with intelligence, timing, and a keen eye for the absurd.
Barry has had the most successful and prolific publishing career of any working newspaper columnist, and his humor never seems to go out of style.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=979626&z=y   (761 words)

  
 alt.fan.dave_barry Frequently Asked Questions
Dave Barry is a syndicated columnist whose humorous articles appear in hundreds of newspapers every week.
Dave has won a Pulitzer Prize for his humor columns (for several of his columns in the category of Distinguished Social Commentary in 1988) and is the lead guitarist in a rock band called the _Rock Bottom Remainders_.
The real Dave Barry has appeared in one episode in the first season of the series, in which he played a guy who gets into a bidding war with the Barry's to purchase an air conditioner.
www.faqs.org /faqs/dave-barry-faq   (3340 words)

  
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Unfortunately, the Crimson White does not print Dave's columns on a regular basis, so your fearless bus driver is often forced to turn to the Net for his weekly dose of Dave.
Barry went to Haverford College, where he was an English major and wrote lengthy scholarly papers filled with sentences that even he did not understand.
The CBS television series "Dave's World" was based on two of his books; the show has been canceled, but for the time being his life continues.
www.lycos.com /info/dave-barry.html   (581 words)

  
 Reason Magazine - All I Think Is That It's Stupid
Barry:: What bugs me when I write that is that I suspect 90 percent of my readers think I made it up.
Barry:: I guess libertarianism is always considered so weird and fringe that people assume that you're in the closet if you don't go around talking about it.
Barry:: I got a lot of mail about that column, which is the only serious column I've ever written that went out as a regular column.
reason.com /barry.shtml   (5659 words)

  
 News from me - August 20, 2001 · EXTRA!
Barry had television and film credits, most notably in Billy Wilder's "Some Like It Hot," in which he played the role of Beinstock, the band's manager.
Barry (who was then going under the name, Dave Siegel) was playing at a hotel in Miami.
What Dave told me — and I'm sure he remembered it this way — was that he filled in a number of times for Elmer's original voice, Arthur Q. Bryan, on kids' records but also in the cartoons, sometimes being called in to do one line in a film that was otherwise voiced by Bryan.
povonline.com /2001/News082001a.htm   (1010 words)

  
 CNN - Dave Barry - November 11, 1998
"Dave Barry Turns 50" is full of quips and cracks about the aging process.
BARRY: No, but I am baffled at how they manage to keep college tuition costs soaring in a time when inflation is stagnant.
And that was the last time when Americans really trusted their media, when the Watergate story broke and it turned out the little reporters had been right and the big politicians had been wrong.
edition.cnn.com /books/dialogue/9811/barry   (1141 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus: Books: Dave Barry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Barry is never uproariously funny, but he does set underway delicious trains of chuckles.
I've read a lot of Dave Barry books, and they are all very funny, but this one is the best.
Some of my favorite Dave Barry books are his collections of columns, particularly because I never seem to be able to keep up with his weekly column in the Sunday paper.
www.amazon.ca /Dave-Barry-Mars-Venus/dp/0345425782   (1021 words)

  
 Book Review - Dave Barry's Money Secrets by Dave Barry
Dave Barry has always possessed that rare talent to take an everyday experience, turn it on its head, and make it laugh out loud funny with both the familiarity of the experience and the absurdity inherent in it.
Dave Barry's Money Secrets is one of those books that makes you laugh out loud and then read that passage to whomever is with you, and then give them the book to read when you're done.
Even though Dave Barry has retired from writing his weekly newspaper column, it's obvious his skill at writing humor still runs strongly within him.
www.reviewsofbooks.com /dave_barrys_money_secrets/review   (537 words)

  
 CNN - Dave Barry - November 11, 1998
"Dave Barry Turns 50" is full of quips and cracks about the aging process.
BARRY: No, but I am baffled at how they manage to keep college tuition costs soaring in a time when inflation is stagnant.
And that was the last time when Americans really trusted their media, when the Watergate story broke and it turned out the little reporters had been right and the big politicians had been wrong.
www.cnn.com /books/dialogue/9811/barry/index.html   (1141 words)

  
 Podcasts, blogs and Dave Barry
Barry, who is 58, could not have been nicer and was happy to talk.
Barry has taken his place at the Herald and parlayed it into a national soapbox.
Barry suggests the best use of a podcast is targeting people with a specific interest in a relatively narrow topic -- say, an interview with a popular humor columnist.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/31/BAGMIH06GL1.DTL   (1098 words)

  
 Dave Barry - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
For 22 years, Dave Barry was a humor columnist for the Miami Herald.
Dave has also written a total of 25 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information.
Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll.
www.leadingauthorities.com /2933/Dave_Barry.htm   (271 words)

  
 alt.fan.dave_barry Frequently Asked Questions
Dave has won a Pulitzer Prize for his humor columns (for several of his columns in the category of Distinguished Social Commentary in 1988) and is the lead guitarist in a rock band called the _Rock Bottom Remainders_.
Plus, Dave is an all-around nice guy who tries to protect his readers from the dangers f the world around them, like exploding cows and trout falling from the ky.
The real Dave Barry has appeared in one episode in the first season of the series, in which he played a guy who gets into a bidding war with the Barry's to purchase an air conditioner.
www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/dave-barry-faq.html   (3373 words)

  
 Paul Harris Interview Transcripts: Dave Barry
Barry: We try to play songs that are so familiar to the American people that even when WE play them, the audience recognizes them eventually.
Barry: I know, but he did because one of the guys in the band...his wife was Springsteen's agent or something.
Barry: It's really good because it lists their personal appearances, which means that if you plan your life properly, you will be somewhere else when The Captain and Tenille perform.
www.harrisonline.com /intvws/1996/10/dave-barry.html   (1052 words)

  
 Audio books on MP3 CD - Dave Barry
Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down, Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway, Big Trouble, and Tricky Business.
Dave is back with a round-up of his most recent, most hilarious and most laugh-out-loud columns that cover his take on the current state of America.
New York Times bestselling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson collaborate on this exciting high seas adventure that is a prequel to the classic tale of Peter Pan.
www.kitabe.com /index.cfm?pageId=30&authorId=292   (231 words)

  
 The Infamous Exploding Whale
The popularity of the whale is primarily due to the Pulitzer Prize winning author Dave Barry, and an article he wrote about it several years ago titled Dead Whale Removal.
Since he was kind enough to publish the web address (well, the old one, anyway) of these pages in his book Dave Barry In Cyberspace, we're going to reprint the article here.
This is a time to get hold of the folks at the Oregon State Highway Division and ask them, when they get done cleaning up the beaches, to give us an estimate on the US Capitol.
www.perp.com /whale/barry.html   (432 words)

  
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 NewStandard: 7/28/96
The message is that "Dave's" is a folksy brand of cigarette, produced by a down-to-earth, tractor-driving guy named "Dave" for ordinary people who work hard and make an honest living, at least until they start coughing up big folksy chunks of trachea.
Dave enjoys lots of land, plenty of freedom and his yellow '57 pickup truck.
Dave Barry is a columnist for The Miami Herald.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-96/07-28-96/e02li154.htm   (660 words)

  
 MiamiHerald.com - Dave Barry
Dave Barry has been at The Miami Herald since 1983.
Gather 'round, young people, because it's back-to-school time, and Uncle Dave wants to give you some important advice to help you excel in the classroom and have successful, rewarding careers, assuming that the Earth is not destroyed by giant comet chunks.
Our idea was to follow in the footsteps of the hardy explorers Lewis and Clark, who traveled 8,000 miles through hostile, uncharted wilderness, a feat that was possible only because of their great courage and the fact that they left their children at home.
www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry   (1225 words)

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