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...They were weird, esoteric jokes. I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright. So it was some strange amalgam of those two things. I can remember I used to do this joke about, I was driving down whatever street the other day, and this woman in the car in front of me had this ridiculous bumper sticker. It was like, "Follow me to Tennessee." And then people chuckle or whatever, and I pause and go, "So we got into Nashville...
...screenwriters going forward is to come up with a new catastrophe. What would it be this time? A stock-market crash? A Thanksgiving Day Kmart trampling? The explosion of a movie theater where the feature attraction is a Final Destination movie? Nothing so imaginative: just a race-car crash and stadium collapse with multiple, gruesome fatalities...
...goggles and watching severed heads propel into the audience. But FD4 slaughtered the competition with a surprising $28.4 million weekend gross, according to early industry estimates. That was the best opening by far for the series, which had never before hit $20 million in its initial frame. The race-car premise must have appealed to soccer kids and NASCAR dads...
...Kevin Czinger breaks free of midtown Manhattan's heart-attack traffic and floors what would be the gas pedal in a more conventional car, the only sound is the hiss of the rain outside and something like an accelerating yawn from the electric motor. Czinger is showing off his company's battery-powered car, the Coda Automotive sedan, which emerged in public this June. As one more car to save the planet, the Coda is nice enough. It gets around 100 miles per charge, handles well and - unlike many of its competitors - actually exists in drivable form and not just...
...away, in the industrial northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin, Richard Liang, Tianjin Lishen Battery Co.'s vice president of marketing, passes by photos of Chinese state leaders before he reaches a display that contains the heart of the Coda: a gray box of power cells that makes up the car's lithium-ion battery. Lishen manufactures the $12,000 battery as part of its pioneering joint-venture deal to build and sell an electric car in the U.S. and, eventually, China. The idea is simple - Lishen, one of the biggest battery manufacturers in the world, provides hardware manufacturing...