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...Muslims - and behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history of nonfiction films, WITWIOBL, no less than Super-Size Me, occupies the fairly extensive, if unexplored, territory between Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jackass Number Two. (Spurlock's earliest claim to fame was the webcast and MTV show I Bet You Will, in which contestants did ugly things to win prizes...
...recently garnered a lot of face time because of his appearance on the “Juno” soundtrack with former Moldy Peaches bandmate Kimya Dawson. Green’s latest solo album may deliver a sarcastic shock or two to newer fans familiar with only his latest claim to fame. The album begins exuberantly and— though Green masks this sentiment in countless clever guises—it remains so throughout. The array of genres is dizzying. Green croons unabashedly on “Tropical Island,” coupling stereotypically lilting island music with lyrics like...
...that he served to the homeless, and for leaving her bleached skull in a bucket of kitty litter at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Today the story has been mythicized, often extrapolated beyond belief. “Yeah, I tasted the soup,” a homeless man once claimed to me, “and I liked it too.” At the time, however, the event marked what was for many the culmination of the violence and depravity that had plagued Manhattan’s Lower East Side for years. Today’s New York...
...Supreme Court reopened the nation's execution chambers on Wednesday, rejecting a claim by Kentucky inmates - echoed by prisoners across the country - that lethal injection as it is widely practiced is cruel and unusual punishment...
Waiting for the President There's the rub. If he is to fulfill his ambitious agenda, Brown will have to master the one skill he has never perfected: the ability to communicate and persuade. In his defense, he can claim bad luck: he followed into office Tony Blair, at his best one of the most pitch-perfect masters of the black arts of political persuasion ever seen. But after a rocky few months, some Labour Party activists, worried about their prospects at the next election (which doesn't have to be held until 2010), openly wonder whether Brown...