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Colton and Aboud plan to broaden their readership by cutting back on media jokes, but such stunts earn MH attention from a vain press--the Misfortune parody was published in FORTUNE too--which is pure gold for a Web start-up. In an exception to the aforementioned Entertaindom rule, MH has scored backing from venture capitalists, who hope its brand can be slapped on books, video games and movies. ("We tell them, 'Think Modern Humorist's Scuba School with Corey Haim,'" cracks Colton.) The money has been used to hire a staff of 10 and add multimedia. MH's "Summer...
...most poorly understood and inconsistently applied tax we've got in this country. It's really a tax on success, which I think is contrary to what the U.S. is all about. I mean, we want people to develop businesses, then pay income taxes as they go along and earn income. Then suddenly, at their death, after they've built this big successful company, Uncle Sam wants to take a piece of it. Family heirs often lose these business legacies because of the high taxes. And most don't do enough estate planning and are totally unprepared...
...three years after their grandmother died, they found an audiotape of her. The sweet voice made them happy and sad at the same time. "Why don't we have more than this?" they wondered. It's schmaltzy and, as they discovered, good business; Forever is set to earn $11 million in revenues this year, up from just $700,000 in 1998. The three-cemetery firm plans to acquire 10 more by year...
...real comedy in three years, Carrey is all manic ingenuity. His eyebrows tango; he sports dry mouth and a milk mustache; he executes a quintuple spit take. It's not that he'll do anything to get a laugh. It's that he has the timing and gall to earn it--as in his metamorphosis from Charlie to Hank in one shot and with no special effects. You don't need ILM when you have...
After all, who am I to complain? So what if my summer won't earn me a sidebar in the Internship Bible? If I wanted to impress random strangers and resume readers I would have stayed in New York. As it is, I have two months of low stress life ahead of me. Hey, if my job gets too boring, they ain't paying me; I can quit...