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...back and did nothing," says Lydon, 43. "I was building up my reserves." Last seen in 1996 on a money-grubbing Sex Pistols "reunion" tour, he is now host of a four-hour weekly webcast on eYada.com occasionally pops up on ABC's Politically Incorrect, and backed The Filth and the Fury, a documentary that aims to tell the definitive Pistols story...
...road to ruin. My mission is to correct people when they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like...
...talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic scenes of mostly gay men incensed North Carolina's Senator Jesse Helms, McCain didn't dodge the bullet: "Some people may call it artistic license," he said. "I call it smut and filth." To a young girl asking about lowering the capital-gains tax so that she could pay for graduate school, McCain said relief should go to the working families first...
...them I say, 'my kids' are innocent... Please accept my humble apology..." And what an apology it was. After praising the "marvelous Phyllis Diller" and the "unpredictable Martha Raye," he rather confusedly added, "When women, doing comedy, do routines written for them by drill sergeants, I take objection. Their filth makes me and many ashamed to be in our business, and to me, women doing anything, especially comedy, are looked upon by me as one of God's great miracles... they can make a baby." And unlike Lewis, sometimes they can even make sense...
While dropping out of Harvard is not in my future, (though it certainly helped Gates), I'm beginning to see the allure of creating your own web business. Having emerged from the slime and filth of their college dorms to go from rags to riches, the computer entrepreneurs of today radiate the kind of laid-back glamour that clings to jazz musicians and stand-up comedians. In addition, they give their grandparents the bragging rights that used to be reserved for doctors and lawyers. All you need to enter this alternate dimension where the computer chips are lined with gold...