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...animated films, like I did in Antz, often say, 'I did it for my children,'" notes Stallone, who's 57 but looks a fit and muscular 15 years younger. "Nah. You mean you did it for your inner child. Here I get to scream and act like a total fool and get paid for it. In a part like this, you really have to let loose and not worry that you hear the 'acting police' sirens looming in the background...
...documents as evidence, and many thought the new Senator could lose her job. But at a pretrial hearing, the judge and Earle clashed over the admissibility of the documents; fearing he would lose, Earle declined to present a case. Hutchison was quickly acquitted, and Earle was portrayed as a fool. Republicans have never quite forgiven...
...very explicit coupling, nothing in Platform is written with a smirk. Michel believes that only the body is to be trusted, its pleasures the only reliable refuge. Capitalism he's resigned to. Religion he thinks of as a fool's game that leads to murderous fundamentalisms. The book ends with a terrorist attack at a Thai resort and some especially nasty passages about Muslims--the grieving Michel describes his pleasure at any news of pregnant Palestinian women being killed...
...rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred to use any man so indecently and scurrilously, and moreover his esteem and affection...
...also traps quite a bit of legitimate mail, so be sure to check it before executing a mass delete. You can create custom filters based on such things as keywords in a message's subject line, but these are the easiest filters to fool. Some spammers simply add a period in the middle of a word (s.ex). A THIS IS SPAM button lets you block future mail from a particular address, but limits you to 100 (or 200 for premium users...