Brad Garrett (born April 14, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California, USA) is a 6'8" (2.03 m) American actor and comedian best known for his role as Robert Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Biography

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Born Bradley Gerstenfeld, his father was a hearing aid specialist working in geriatrics and his mother a housewife. He attended Hale Jr. High School in Woodland Hills, California and graduated from El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1978. He attended UCLA for less than two months before dropping out to pursue his comedy career.

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Bolivian Mission Towns Revive Baroque Legacy
Thu, 15 May 2008 00:31:00 -0400
Deep in the tropics of Bolivia, young musicians and others are keeping alive the legacy of the country's 17th-century Jesuit missionaries. A region with eight mission towns is home to the richest collection of Baroque manuscripts in the Americas and Asia.
Why Art Is (Still) More Expensive Than Ever
Wed, 14 May 2008 08:12:00 -0400
Art writer Lindsay Pollock says giant sales at this week's New York art auctions suggest this is an art market climbing ever higher in price, regardless of that worldwide credit crunch.
Robot Conducts the Detroit Symphony
Wed, 14 May 2008 08:14:00 -0400
Detroit's Orchestra Hall was like a scene out of the Jetsons on Tuesday night. A robot designed by Honda conducted the Detroit Symphony. ASIMO, which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, led musicians during a performance of The Impossible Dream.

NYT > Arts

Music Review: Ego-Fueled Hip-Hop Sci-Fi Space Odyssey
Thu, 15 May 2008 02:50:56 -0000
There is a new yardstick for the size of the universe. It is approximately equal to the size of Kanye West’s ego.
Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million
Thu, 15 May 2008 04:50:16 -0000
A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction.
For Movies, a Summer That’s Shy on Sequels
Thu, 15 May 2008 02:55:49 -0000
With this year’s crop of summer movies, Hollywood may have trouble topping last year’s success.

Arts & Culture

Worshipping Walt
Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
For some devoted readers in the late nineteenth century, Walt Whitman was a “man magnified to the dimensions of a god,” and “Leaves of Grass” a divinely inspired gospel. In a series of entertaining and acutely observed biographies of the “Whitman disciples,” Robertson situates their fervor in a complex religious . . .
The Unquiet Life
David Denby Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
David Owen (Tim Robbins), the outraged hero of “Noise,” is a pain in the neck, and, depending on your point of view, either the craziest or the sanest man in New York. Making love one night to his wife, Helen (Bridget Moynahan), David is interrupted and unmanned by the Klaxon . . .
The Theatre
Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:00 -0000
OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. THE BULLY PULPIT Michael O. Smith wrote and stars in this one-man show about Teddy Roosevelt. Byam Stevens directs. Opens May 14. (Beckett, 410 W. 42nd St. 212-279-4200.) LA FEMME EST MORTE . . .

Christian Science Monitor | World

Creative writing for extraterrestrials
Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
A college class, funded by a NASA Space Grant Consortium, contemplates what to say to E.T.
One town uses the arts to revive after hurricane Katrina
Wed, 14 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Bay St. Louis, Miss., taps painters and the cultural community nationwide to become a rare post-Katrina success story. Why are residents yelling 'Stellaaaaaaa?'
Music transforms kids and towns in remote area of Bolivia
Mon, 12 May 2008 01:00:00 -0500
Inspired by a biannual baroque festival and the legacy of missionaries, young people join choirs and take up the violin and Vivaldi in parishes across the country's eastern lowlands.

Village Voice Arts

Theater: Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
And intrigue bogs down Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Boeing-Boeing (By Michael Feingold)
Theater: Rafta, Rafta . . .
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
In Bollywood cinema, censors have decreed that even kisses are too racy for the screen. Lovers must demonstrate their passion by way of torrid glances, fervent hand-holding, and frequent musical numbers. But Ayub Khan-Din's Rafta, Rafta . . ., produced by the New Group, is a play, not a film, and it takes place in Boulton, England, not Mumbai, so the young Anglo-Indian couple at its center should be free to canoodle as much as they choose. Yet . . . read more (By Alexis Soloski)
Theater: The Unconquered
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
A Scottish play, but not that one (By Alexis Soloski)
Art: New York Schooled: Spring Art-School Exhibitions
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
Art school has always been about stealing from your elders, then hacking your way through those influences to something of your own. For centuries, that meant copying master works and drawing from live models to discover new ways of depicting the human body's arching slabs of meat in perspective. But that was before Cubism fractured the body, Abstract Expressionism dispersed it, and Minimalism dispensed with it. Now all we've got is amorphous . . . read more (By R.C. Baker)
Books: The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400
They loved this dirty town (By Tom Robbins)

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