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Here's an old bit from a stand-up comic's act: "Some say the glass is half empty. Some say it is half full. I say it's twice as big as it needs...
...nation. So it may be hard to picture her as a small-town store clerk. But that is her role in the film Good Girl, which debuted at Sundance last week and was picked up for $4 million by Fox. The studio wants audiences to expect a darkly comic tone. Says marketing chief Nancy Utley: "They shouldn't be tricked into thinking it's Friends: The Movie." Fans of Joey, be warned...
...More comic is the Bush administration's insistence that the president's brother may be freezing a tax cut of his own, but he's not raising taxes. When pressed on this, George W. and his team argue that states play by different financial rules. They have to balance their budgets every year. The only slip so far has been by new Republican National Committee chairman Marc Racicot who when pushed on whether Jeb was raising taxes told reporters, "I think that argument could be made, yes." Eight hours later, Racicot issued a statement saying he did not believe...
Like the Romans before it, the empire of the Golden Arches has finally succumbed to the indomitable spirit of Asterix the Gaul. As of Wednesday, Ronald McDonald has been retired as the icon of McDonald's France, replaced by the Gallic nationalist comic-book hero. Ironies abound, of course, since Asterix had been something of an anti-Mcdonald's icon, appropriated by anti-globalization protestors such as Mac-basher Jose Bove to symbolize French resistance to foreign encroachment. Resentment of the perceived "McDonaldization" of their culture runs high in France - the influential daily Le Monde, for example, warns that Mcdonald...
...Zippy the Pinhead" appears in smart newspapers. "Zippy Annual 2001" can be found at smart comic book stores and regular bookstores...