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...kinda strange country, isn't it?" asked Johnny Carson at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour. "Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes." Bob Hope said, "I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes." When Bob Hope makes a joke about your porno movie, you've arrived...
Lubricate with Booze. Michael Gonzales, 45, a New York City-based writer, has fond memories of a recent flight from Brussels to Chicago. He was seated next to a chocolate dealer from Texas and the "stewardesses kept giving us champagne," he says...
Barack Obama is nearly impossible to rattle. His aides and friends are fond of pointing out that his emotional highs are not too high and his lows are never particularly low. It is Obama's almost preternatural calm that will be John McCain's main obstacle at Wednesday night's final presidential debate in Hempstead...
...that his experience at Facebook will stay with him even after he departs. “Facebook has been my passion and my purpose for the past 5 years,” he wrote. “I will always bleed Facebook blue.” Zuckerberg had similarly fond words for his former partner. “Dustin has always had Facebook’s best interests at heart and will always be someone I turn to for advice,” he said...
...Ritchie loves characters who provide conflict and, more important, congestion; his pictures are downright garish with local color. A few from this fresco: Tank (Nonso Anozie), an Anglo-Afro bruiser who's fond of Merchant-Ivory dramas; Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy), a gang member who unexpectedly plights his homoerotic troth to the flummoxed One Two ("What exactly is it you want to do to me, Bob?"); and, best of the lot, Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell), a junk rocker who has faked his own death to sell more CDs. It's a star-making part for Kebbell...