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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tuesday night than he is here.) Finally, Ferrell, the Hollywood star most notorious for going naked in his movies, shows off only his belly, and that for a teasing second. For most of the rest of the time, you'll be reveling in, or enduring, one more exhibition of grown men playing children, of idiots destroying things...
...offending advertisers, has purged itself of what little edge and controversy it once had. Hollywood movies, seeking blockbuster audiences, are shying away from the restrictive R rating (not to mention the dreaded NC-17) and stressing feel-good family entertainment. Everyone is watching his or her words; language has grown cumbersome, self-conscious and freighted with symbolic baggage. In such an uptight climate, cultural renegades are doing what they have always done: trying to shock, offend, liberate. Stern's gross-out radio act, like his book, is all about saying the unsayable -- at least, within the limits of what...
...irony is that the initials W.M.A. could stand for many of the people who will buy Pearl Jam's album. In fact, they stand for all the members of the band, as well as most of the people in the alternative rock scene, though female musicians have grown in prominence. In the liner notes to the Nirvana compilation Incesticide, lead singer Cobain wrote, "If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of a different color, or women, please do this one favor for us -- leave us the f--- alone!" And Scott Weiland, the flame-haired singer for Stone...
...have a thousand reporters watching him and 5,000 who are going to write or comment on how he handled it. ''It's the art of the possible,'' says Regan, who believes he is calming a few critics. ''I think people see what we are doing, and they've grown accustomed to it. Perhaps I've mellowed a little bit. I said a little...
...hardly soothed when Mexican Foreign Secretary Bernardo Sepulveda Amor shrugged off the incident as ''only a police case.'' Last week Sepulveda reiterated that the battle against drugs would subside only when U.S. consumption slackens. As domestic and international pressures mount, both the poor and the middle class have grown increasingly disgruntled with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. During the 57 years it has ruled the country as a one-party democracy, the P.R.I. has never lost a presidential or gubernatorial election. That could soon change. The conservative, probusiness National Action Party has shown considerable strength in Chihuahua, the country's largest...