Word: fakeness
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...Virgin” is most of all a reflection on its quirky but grounded creators. Carell comes from a background of delivering fake news, realistically presenting absurd topics. Apatow, who is making his feature-film directorial debut, is known for creating two generally acclaimed but swiftly cancelled shows, “Freaks and Geeks” and “Undeclared,” both of which offered wacky insight into the plight of teens and college students, respectively...
Amount Sony must pay to settle a class action for creating a fake movie critic to hype some of its mediocre films...
...Fake Watch Worldwide, the Burberry plaid is a favorite of hipsters and ladies who lunch; in China, where pirated versions are ubiquitous, it's worn by just about everyone. Which might explain why Chinese copycats are trying to expand their market overseas. Last week Hong Kong customs made its largest ever piracy bust, netting more than 150,000 high-grade Burberry fakes, worth about $8 million, bound for Japan. Eleven people were arrested, including the two suspected ringleaders, who allegedly ran the syndicate out of a legitimate children's clothing store. For now, it seems, Japanese will have...
...Wedding Crashers, OWEN WILSON and VINCE VAUGHN tote fake Purple Hearts to score lusty bridesmaids, irking U.S. veterans who support a new congressional bill to ban such behavior. The vets aren't the only ones taking summer comedies very, very seriously...
...appeal because of their more potent high. Others order from shady Internet pharmacies where prescriptions aren't always required. Still others take advantage of the fact that neither doctors nor parents tend to think of prescription medications as drugs of abuse. That makes it a fairly easy proposition to fake or exaggerate symptoms in order to persuade physicians to write prescriptions, or to pillage medicine cabinets for pills left forgotten on shelves. "When adults and medical professionals treat medications casually," says Dr. Francis Hayden, director of the adolescent mental-health center at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City...