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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TRICKED By Alex Robinson From the cartoonist of Box Office Poison, comes a tale of six people -- a reclusive rock legend, a heartbroken waitress, a counterfeiter, an obsessive crank, a lost daughter and a backstabbing lover -- whose lives spiral in upon each other. (Summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

Compared to the antics of the Jerky Boys, such a joke is merely the work of amateurs untrained in the finer art of prank calling. The Jerky Boys—John G. Brennan (aka Johnny B.) and Kamal (Ahmed)—have perfected crank calling into an art. Unfortunately, it does not necessarily follow that this art belies either good taste or talent. This Grammy-nominated duo’s latest release, The Ultimate Jerky Boys Collection, is their third compilation, a two-disc set consisting of fifty-one of their supposed best recordings of prank calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...Jerky Boys exist as the result of two New Yorkers capitalizing on shared amusement of recording crank phone conversations and too much free time. Their 1993 debut album, The Jerky Boys, was the first of its kind and a best-seller. Since their debut, the Jerky Boys have released four more albums, two other compilation albums, two movies, and a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

...Does It; a book, Yeah, I Said It; a 31-city comedy big-venue stand-up tour, The Cotton T-Shirt Tour; a big role in this summer's Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda; a gig as a prank-calling puppet on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers; and a recurring role on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also, she fixed up her website real nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanda Sykes Wants It All | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing grunts into their vehicles. Tank drivers climb into turrets and crank up heavy-metal tunes. Infantrymen who moments earlier had been asking about baseball scores exhort one another to move forward. "This is what you trained for, Marine!" "You're the hunter! You're the predator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Battle to the Enemy | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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