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...driving a little harder, working a little harder." Seinfeld says his dad was funny, and he still laughs at his jokes. "There was one he liked to tell about a guy who falls out of a window," recalls Seinfeld, smiling. "He's lying there on the street. This other fella runs up to him and says, 'What happened?' The guy says, 'I don't know. I just got here myself...
...Landlord, just premiered FCU: Fact Checkers Unit, in which two overzealous magazine researchers stop at nothing to verify that Murray, playing his deadpan self, likes to drink milk. Also available online is Drunk Bill Murray Almost Fights a Guy, Break.com's blurry, 41-sec. clip of a fella who looks and sounds like Murray caught cranky on a New Orleans street. It appears that no one, however, recorded what could have been Murray's Zapruder tape--when Swedish police detained the Caddyshack star last month for driving a golf cart erratically. He says he wasn't drunk, just golfing...
...from Adidas, the rap community has aspired to be big business. By the '90s, those aspirations had become a reality. In a 1999 cover story, TIME reported that with 81 million CDs sold, rap was officially America's top-selling music genre. The boom produced enterprises like Roc-A-Fella, which straddled fashion, music and film and in 2001 was worth $300 million. It produced moguls like No Limit's Master P and Bad Boy's Puff Daddy, each of whom in 2001 made an appearance on FORTUNE's list of the richest 40 under 40. Along...
...single most compelling feature of a Thompson candidacy would be his magnetism. A natural storyteller, he speaks with a relaxed cadence and unhurried confidence, peppering his remarks with language such as "fella" and "bad guys," pausing expertly to make a point, relish an applause line, set up a joke. He is most effective when he makes fun of the superficial glamour of Los Angeles and the tangled hypocrisy of D.C. In a recent appearance, he supplied a cheeky anecdote about a fellow Senator coming up to him after he gave his first speech on the Senate floor, which...
...musical that never loses its topicality. That show exemplifies the credo Loesser lived by: "LOUD is good." Which echoes in a comment Hutton made in the TCM interview: "Oh, I couldn't sing good, but boy, I sure sang loud!" Talk about true minds meeting: Loesser was just the fella to put funny words in her big mouth...