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...been a good summer for Tommy Chong. The hippie icon celebrated his 70th birthday, published his 2nd book, Cheech and Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography, and recently announced the end of his 26-year feud with Cheech Marin - they're reuniting next month for a national comedy tour, "Light Up America," Chong sat down with TIME to discuss stoner comedy, the politics of pot and the legacy of the counterculture...
TIME: Tell me about your book. Why did you decide to write it? CHONG: Everything that happens to me is very cosmic. And this book became very cosmic for a lot of reasons, you know. Because Cheech and Chong, we were way more than just a comedy team. We really were the Mum & Dad of the counterculture. Cheech and Chong, we were the ones who took it into your homes, into your head through the albums. And now that Mum and Dad are back together again, everybody's happy. Cheech really feels strongly that we could go down in history...
What do you think the fans are expecting? They probably won't expect what we look like. We look like the runner-up in a Cheech and Chong look-a-like contest. [Laughs] But they hear Cheech's voice and they hear my voice, everybody's going to go, "Ah, okay." We're all about being funny and making people laugh at stupid things...
...Taiwan and the U.S. as an affront to Chinese sovereignty. The U.S., which acknowledges China's position but supplies Taiwan with military material, also treads cautiously, frequently denying Taiwanese leaders permission to visit the U.S. in order to avoid unnecessarily upsetting China. Ma "differs from his predecessor," says Lin Chong-pin, President of the Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies. "He is more sensitive to what Beijing feels...
CHEECH AND CHONG reunite for comedy tour but can't remember...