Word: cult
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...relatively well when purchasing power got into a tough spot - cell phones and PCs. It may be that the focus on tech growth potential has been too much about Apple (AAPL) which has done well, at least in its most recent quarter. But, Apple is as much a cult as a business. Some people will borrow themselves into the poor house to own a new Mac or iPhone. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...think I'm a celebrity. Maybe I'm a cult figure? I walk down the street, and it's not like people are mobbing me. But I do get recognized sometimes - which is very new for a writer. A writer is supposed to have anonymity. And the result of that is that I think I'm all that. My ego is completely out of control. I think you're going to see that in some of the work coming...
...Both men like to play arrogant, vulgar, out-of-shape buffoons - angry antiheroes with oversized egos and anger management problems. In the cult comedy The Foot Fist Way, McBride growled as a hapless martial arts instructor who never missed an opportunity to tell his students he was better than them. In Pineapple Express, he was the shotgun-toting stoner who found the strength to embrace his new-found "thug life." And with the new HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down, set to premiere Sunday, Feb. 15, McBride has teamed up with executive producer Ferrell to tell the story of a washed...
...Foot Fist Way became a something of a cult hit after the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Did that movie play any part in getting Eastbound & Down off the ground? Oh, definitely. The short history is that Jody Hill, Ben Best and I were all in film school together in North Carolina, and after years of compromising ourselves and struggling in California, we moved back and made this movie for $70,000. We paid for it on credit cards, with a crew comprised of interns from our old film school. The movie never found real financial success, but it started getting...
Some things were unavailable--quit being stingy with the Top Chef, Bravo!--but what I lost in choice I made up for in serendipity. I downloaded video podcasts from Cook's Illustrated, watched Rob Corddry's Web comedy Children's Hospital and rediscovered the cult comedy Strangers with Candy (with a pre--Daily Show Stephen Colbert) because it turned up randomly through the Joost app on my iPhone...