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...your stories in the book seem almost too hilarious to be true. What's the line you draw between keeping things accurate and exaggerating for humor? There's not a lot of exaggeration in my stories. You learn that lesson the James Frey way. I'm looking through the book right now trying to think if anything was really exaggerated, and it's like, I don't think so. They're all really true. I don't have to exaggerate a lot, because my life is ridiculous...
...Hurt Locker plays just fine. A Lourdes miracle would be needed for the Academy geriatrics to throw away their walkers and actually go to a theater - the only place Avatar can be appreciated in all its 21st century splendor. Filmmakers rushing to the 3-D format had better learn to be satisfied with the boodle they earn at the box office and not expect to win Oscars for a project that doesn't look like an HBO movie...
...populous country. The U.S. wants the endgame in China to resemble the rest of East Asia - genuinely believing that this will ultimately achieve lasting stability and mutual prosperity - and complains that China remains an insular, self-interested and subversive beneficiary of the system. (Read "Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China...
...This program inspires me because I get to learn about my culture and American culture,” she said. “When I found out [about the budget cut proposal], I got upset...
...spent several years as an analyst on Wall Street, watching Spitzer's crusades against corrupt stock research and rigged IPOs play out around me, defending his actions to colleagues who ranted that he was motivated only by political ambition. To learn that Spitzer was the world's biggest hypocrite, that he'd thrown it all away to frequent prostitutes, was devastating, a lapse that could never be forgiven. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...