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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...about using the media to express his views. He made 21 live radio appearances from 1999-2003, mostly in the Philippines. During these spots he would rail against the worldwide Jewish and American conspiracies supposedly out to ruin him, calling the Jews "filthy, lying bastard people" and the U.S. a "brutal, evil dictatorship." When the World Trade Center was destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001, he announced on Philippine radio: "This is wonderful news. I applaud the act ... I want to see the U.S. wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King's Gambit | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

...regional branch of the neo-Nazi Russian National Unity (RNE) party in nearby Novgorod. Police cite Girenko's expert advice as the most likely motive for the hit, but are tight-lipped about possible suspects. No arrests have yet been made. "Pity they didn't knock off that bastard sooner," says Alexei, 22, one of the Schultz88 members being prosecuted in St. Petersburg. "He really tried to put me behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia With Hate | 8/1/2004 | See Source »

...Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show," because when you think Kelsey Grammer, you think - well, no you don't, but the lucky bastard sold this show anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fox Makes Things So Complicated; UPN Enjoys Being a Girl | 5/21/2004 | See Source »

...Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing on Montaigne and preparing exquisite meals for himself. Hugo has a rare and painful disease that could be cured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sympathy For The Devil | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...Truffaut?s Julie (Catherine Deneuve) has the same curt amorality. When she learns that Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has killed a detective who?s been trailing them, she glances at the corpse and says, ?That?s one bastard less.? When Louis observes that ?You see evil everywhere,? she replies, ?It is everywhere.? Yet Truffaut wants Julie to be an alluring creature, so that Louis? love for her is elevated from masochistic wimpery to amour fou. Or at least amour noir. ?I know what you?re doing,? the ailing Louis tell her toward the end, ?and I don?t care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

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