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...candidate first checked into the élite Vienna hospital in early September, doctors were stumped by his symptoms, which included acute back pain, swollen organs and numerous ulcers lining his digestive tract. But it was his worsening skin disorder, called chloracne, that pointed toward dioxin. Zimpfer noted that the fat-soluble substance would have been easy to administer in a cream-based soup. So who did the poisoning? "Of course, it was done by the authorities," Yushchenko told TIME last week, calling it "an act of political reprisal" by the government of departing President Leonid Kuchma, which supports Yushchenko...
This is not how I imagined an interview with Kenan Thompson should go. Worn out from a long day of interviews and autographing to promote his latest movie, Fat Albert, the normally effervescent, over-the-top young comedian who played such indelible Nickelodeon roles as Super Dude, Pierre Escargot and the bumbling employee of Good Burger, just does not have the energy for his trademark Bill Cosby impressions...
...newest step towards establishing himself as a solo performer, Thompson has, to be boldly cliché, big shoes to fill as the title role of the live-action movie, Fat Albert. The movie is based on iconic comedian Bill Cosby’s hit 1970s cartoon series “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” which is, itself, based off of Cosby’s standup routine about his childhood. Directed by Joel Zwick (coming off aptly enough from the high of another “fat” movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding...
Surprisingly, Thompson was not the original actor cast as Fat Albert, nor was it thought that the project would ever be completed after Cosby and original director Forest Whitaker fell apart over creative differences...
Calling his manager, who had once represented Whitaker, Thompson was able to secure a second, more favorable audition. The second time around, final casting for the role of Fat Albert came down to Thompson and Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, Sorority Boys), with the part eventually going to the latter. Thompson explains that Fat Albert is the biggest and tallest member of his gang, and that Miller, who stands at 6’5”, is easily the larger...