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...their inner beauty, Shallow Hal is a movie for those annoyed by the politically correct self-restraint of Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor remakes. The total lack of irony in its vacuous storyline will delight audiences confused by the dramatic complexities of Jim Carrey’s Liar, Liar. Pauly Shore would refuse to appear in a movie that relies so heavily on the repetitive use of a single joke...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shallow Hal | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...handlers wanted him to appear likable, he needed first to appear human. And if he was trying to appear unjustly accused, it would have helped not to accuse everyone else. An old trial lawyer's rule holds that a defendant can get away with calling one witness a liar. Two people--maybe. More than that, and the jury will figure, rightly or wrongly, that you're the liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not To Rebuild A Reputation | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...Father's Day with a kind of benign neutrality. After all, who does it hurt? And, all in all, it's probably good for the economy, better even than a mid-summer tax-cut. In fact, I ought to take some pleasure in it, and I'd be a liar if I said that I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fie on Father's Day, a Phony Holiday! | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

...claim they were defrauded by Roger Clinton, the former president's brother, are scheduled to testify in June. In the Torricelli probe, prosecutors are trying to amass enough physical and other evidence to overcome the fact that the senator's chief accuser, David Chang, is a known and profligate liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes From the Halls — and Chambers — of Justice | 5/30/2001 | See Source »

...recently referred to Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's president, as a "womanizer." I'm not going to reckon with the truth or falsehood of the accusation, but by the ANC's reaction, you'd think Mbeki had been called a murderer, a cheat, a fraud, a deviant and a liar - all epithets that Bill Clinton, and probably every American president, routinely gets called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In South Africa, Both Whites and Blacks Fail to Grasp the New Reality | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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