Word: 80s
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...year's MTV Movie Awards. He brought them to Michaels, who hired Samberg as a cast member and the other two as writers. Their humor, like a lot of those involved in channel101.com is playful, loose and not overthought. For his SNL audition, Samberg did an impression of an '80s jogger, which mainly consisted of wearing short shorts and breathing heavily while talking about the recession. "His comedy doesn't come from a place of anger," says Michaels. "He's got a kind of sweetness...
...mocking the disabled and their prayers" (though it has imposed no fine on Radio Maryja for its anti-Semitic outbursts). Szczuka's face was splashed across the right-wing press. "It was horrible, a crazy attack," she said last week. "It reminds me of socialism of the 1970s and '80s." These controversies do not appear to have lost pis its core support in rural Poland. There, unemployment and poverty levels are higher than in the cities, and many are ready to blame free-market reforms for their woes. Though the Kaczynskis' personal approval ratings have fallen, new elections today would...
...Check. Launch a line of preppy duds? Check. The next item on rap star KANYE WEST'S to-do list is to create a book in the style of Japanese manga comics with animator Bill Plympton. Plympton, best known for short films that appeared on MTV in the '80s, met West when drawing the raw, smudgy animation for the hip-hop star's video Heard 'Em Say. After the two hit it off, they decided to collaborate on a book based on West's lyrics for Simon & Schuster. Can a Kanye West line of baked goods be far behind...
DIED. June Pointer, 52, who, with her siblings, formed the Grammy-winning pop group the Pointer Sisters and recorded such '80s megahits as Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited; of cancer; in Los Angeles. The sisters' success waned after the 1983 release of their 3 million--selling album Break Out, and in 2003 June--who struggled with drug addiction and her mental health--was replaced by her niece...
DIED. Helen Cohn, 92, who helped her husband and business partner Nudie create garish, rhinestone-studded garb favored by glittery entertainers from the 1940s to the '80s; in Valencia, Calif. Among their most famous creations was a $10,000 gold lamé suit for Elvis Presley (the profit for Nudie's Rodeo Tailors: $9,950). The ensembles were most popular among country stars like Roy Rogers and Buck Owens, who wore Nudies to their graves. The Cohns' motto: "It's better to be looked over than overlooked...