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...NASCAR neophytes, it might seem like the ultimate repudiation of a father-son bond, but Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s move surely would have made his father proud. Sitting next to his sister and with other family members in the audience, Earnhardt, Jr., announced Thursday what many in NASCAR circles felt never would be allowed to happen - NASCAR's most popular driver would be leaving the company that bears his father's name, Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), as a driver at the end of the 2007 campaign...
...country rube one-liners is his bread and butter, but he's becoming a box office regular. In 2006, his movie Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector earned $15.6 million, proving that enough of Whitney's fans would show up at the multiplex for the potty humor and Dale Earnhardt Jr. references they knew from the Blue Collar Comedy Tour to make his films profitable. As the voice of the tow truck character Mater in the Pixar movie Cars, Whitney was introduced to some other demographics...
...difficult to guess who Will Ferrell is channeling here. Is he supposed to be a mix between Dale Earnhardt and George Bush? An egomaniacal racing superstar? The boy who never grew up? Just your average...
Lasseter, 49, is also the Dale Earnhardt of computer animators, the first name in a mammothly successful form of popular art he pretty much created, beginning with his short Luxo Jr. in 1986. From the start, he's been the soul of Pixar Animation: he directed its first three hits (Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2) and executive-produced its next three (Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and The Incredibles). Early this year, when Disney bought Pixar--basically paying about $7 billion for Lasseter's brain--he became boss of the grand old animation studio as well...
...Tomorrow is designed to be a whole lot safer than the car of today. The project was given tragic impetus during a nine-month period in 2000-2001 when a number of drivers were killed, including Petty's son Adam, then 19, and the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who ran into a wall at Daytona. Even so, the idea of developing the model was not exactly championed by the drivers. "I don't think drivers thought anything had to be changed," says Petty, 45, who has tested the new car. "We'll drive anything, anytime, anywhere--all you have...