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...have been in his personal life (there's an abandoned son out there somewhere) to the fact that his slick protégé Tommy Sweet (a spot-on Colin Farrell) is hugely successful, largely on the basis of having turned one of Bad's songs into a smash hit. Bad would tell you Tommy's career was never the one he was after, but given how used up he feels by his life in music, it's only natural that he assigns the blame to the person who most obviously used...
...With SNL a breakout hit, Second City executives decided to develop a sketch-comedy series of their own, launching SCTV in 1976. In its early days, SCTV was aired only on Canadian television. The cast included standouts from the troupe's Toronto branch such as John Candy and Eugene Levy. The series introduced the stereotypical, "eh"-saying Canadian brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie, played with aplomb by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis. The McKenzie brothers hosted The Great White North, a commentary show with topics ranging from Canada's geography to tutorials on how to trick beer companies into giving...
...Moreover, Bad has a lot more menace in him than the Dude; he's so self-destructive that anyone around him is likely to get hit with some sort of whiskey-soaked shrapnel. Indeed, alarm bells go off the minute we hear that the love interest he meets on the road, an aspiring journalist named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), has a 4-year-old. (And she's a single mother, movie shorthand for Vulnerable with Babysitting Issues...
...Most of us have already bought our holiday presents, of course. USPS shipping hit a high-water mark on Monday, Dec. 14, when post offices processed a whopping 800 million pieces of mail, a 40% spike over the typical load. A FedEx spokesman said the 14th was also that carrier's busiest day; the delivery service processed and sent out 13 million packages. Why Dec. 14? FedEx calls the date a "perfect storm" - packages were backed up from the weekend, and shoppers were rushing to beat the end of many retailers' free-shipping offers. The carrier says...
...chalked “Dauphin” on the walls of campus and videotaped his break-in to the Skull and Bones “Tomb.” He left after some PG (Pretty Grisly) events that targeted freshman residents of Branford College. You know, like death threats, hit-and-run incidents—which is pretty disturbing even for New Haven. According to the same article, the freshman who left was allegedly behind these incidents...