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What keeps Ferrell on the mainstream side of the Andy Kaufman line is that the audience is rarely the butt of the joke. Even in Talladega Nights--in which he plays a moronic, Southern-accented titan of the NASCAR circuit--the joke isn't that people follow racing or idolize a doofus but that Ricky Bobby is oblivious to everything around him. "It's easy to take a shot at people, set yourself aside from it and say, Hey, look how stupid everybody is," says Will Arnett, the former Arrested Development star who plays Poehler's brother and evil skating...
...overseas companies dealing with Sudan. But other panelists at the debate said the proposed Massachusetts bill would not lead to a contradictory foreign policy. “The new bill would not contain the slightest conflict between the federal and state governments,” said State Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Lexington), who helped draft the legislation. “We’d be simply adopting the federal government’s labeling of Darfur as a ‘genocide’ and acting consistently with their position. When the federal government removes the label...
...popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron and jailer. Prokofiev had the extraordinary bad luck of dying on the same day as the great man, "ensconcing him forever in the tyrant's shadow," wrote critic Sarah Kaufman of the Washington Post, "where he remains branded as a compromised artist...
...most part, Carrey seems free of that guy who only cared about his career. It's hard to imagine him being so immersed in his work that he refused to admit he wasn't Andy Kaufman during the entire filming of Man on the Moon. Carrey says he has a documentary he's cut together of that period that he will release one day. "It is basically the story of an actor gone mad," he says, more distantly amused than proud. "It's amazing to see [director] Milos Forman begging Andy Kaufman to come out of his trailer...
...It’s hugely important,” Kay Kaufman Shelemay, the Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies, said in advance of the news...