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...Last spring, Josh Tyrangiel and I had lunch with Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Eugene Levy, four creators of our favorite 60s-style folk-song improv documentary comedy ?A Mighty Wind.? I can say the interview, which TIME.com published in its extended form, is laugh-out-loud funny because I just reread it and laughed out loud quite often. Treat yourself and read it. No, let us treat you. The interview is on our website...
When Showtime premiered Queer as Folk, its series about horny gay men in Pittsburgh, Pa., the title (taken from the original British series) was not meant to be subtle. (This, kids, was way back in 2000, before Carson Kressley rendered the word queer as humdrum as a Gap sweater.) Now, unveiling a series about horny gay women in Los Angeles, the network is playing it more coy. The L Word (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.), says its title sequence, is also about "liberty," "life," "love" and, presumably, llamas and lemonade too. The L Word, this implies, is about more than just...
Like all substances that promise to increase desire and performance, whether they are prescription drugs or folk aphrodisiacs sold next to the cash register at the quick-stop store, MSH is tough to investigate because of the placebo effect. As Procter & Gamble discovered with its testosterone-patch study, arousal and desire are so entangled with one's state of mind that it's tough to figure out cause and effect. Says Altman: "If you're in a tribal society and taught that something is an aphrodisiac, it probably will be. But someone in Los Angeles taking the same thing probably...
Capital cities are magnets of prosperity to provincial folk across Asia, and Seoul is no exception. The metropolis' population now tops 10 million?one-fifth of the entire population of South Korea?and bureaucrats have pondered vainly for years how to keep Seoul from becoming ever more crowded and expensive. The country's politicians think they have the answer...
...snowstorm throws the Pudding folk into gale-force mode. They are constantly on cell phones, keeping tabs on the progress of the professional members...