Word: jocks
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...Laughs.] I think a lot of it is genetic, but I always was kind of a jock. I went on my first triathlon in May, and my goal was just to finish, so my time was horrible. But at least I got over the finish line...
...from the previous generation: the hyperactive chameleon-comedians Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Eddie Murphy. Ferrell doesn't dazzle by slipping into a zillion roles (as he did on Saturday Night Live). He found a persona the audience likes--the lanky, ungainly goof who thinks he's a supreme jock--and he mostly sticks with it. He knows the mass audience wants its stars only in their familiar mode. When they try going upmarket--Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction, Sandler in Spanglish--the fan base deserts them...
...Leist, a member of the varsity softball team and the athletic secretary of what she dubbed the “jock House,” adds that she regrets that her daughter, who will enter Harvard this fall, will not be able to choose her House...
...rich Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is the shock jock of international politics - as he demonstrated in the U.N. General Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new alternative Latin American television network, Telesur - and has left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition networks, RCTV...
...Whitney also defends comedians of all political stripes, from fired shock jock Don Imus - "He's has been doing that crap since the beginning of time. Don't draw a line in the sand while a guy is walking over it" - to libertarian Bill Maher - "Don't agree with him, bless his heart. But he's hilarious." Comedians, Whitney says, are like beverages. "Everybody has different taste." (Whitney says he's Coors Light...