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...behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history of nonfiction films, WITWIOBL, no less than Super-Size Me, occupies the fairly extensive, if unexplored, territory between Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jackass Number Two. (Spurlock's earliest claim to fame was the webcast and MTV show I Bet You Will, in which contestants did ugly things to win prizes...
Answering queries about college mascots may not seem like the best way to garner fame and fortune, but for one Harvard undergrad, his fame may lie in the form of a question...
...remarked “The dance at the end of ‘Julius Caesar’ was performed very well!” so there was a historical example for the direction we took.THC: Last question. Have you had to deal with some fame after “The Wire”? And what are your future acting ambitions and plans?JTF: Yes! I do get recognized quite a lot on the street. The Wire has ended, but one of the benefits from Netflix and things like that is that many are still watching the show. More and more...
...farm bill allows farmers with incomes up to $2.5 million per year to collect federal dollars; in 2001, 73 percent of subsidies went to the largest 10 percent of American farms. Previous recipients of much-needed farm aid have included media mogul Ted Turner and Kenneth Lay of Enron fame. David Rockefeller—one of those Rockefellers—received $554,000 in subsidies from 1995 to 2005, despite his estimated net worth of $2.6 billion. Farmer’s need subsidies almost as much as hedge fund managers do. In an era of gaping budget deficits, it seems...
...boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them,” as Enrique explains). We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit to the filmmakers that the movie’s didacticism doesn’t feel unbearably contrived while it?...