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...reality-TV field, turning groups of tinkerers loose on a scrap heap to build cannons, gliders, rockets and the like out of detritus, then pit their improvised creations against each other. With humor and an adorable host (Cathy Rogers, the thinking viewer's Julie Chen)--and without the robo-macho aggressiveness of Comedy Central's BattleBots--Junkyard shows that, sometimes, making smart, escapist TV is rocket science...
Then in 1996 he had one of those years actors dream of: he won an Oscar for his performance as a suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, and he became Hollywood's newest action star in The Rock. Cage has since concentrated on macho-mayhem movies and winsome love stories. His work is as popular with filmgoers as it is ignored by critics. Aside from four Blockbuster Entertainment awards in five years, the only citations he's received are for speeding in Jerry Bruckheimer transport epics like Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds...
...only exception is Stifler, who shuts the band geeks out of his party, but who in turn is only tolerated because he has a house to party in and a mom of easy leisure. His jock exclusionism is part and parcel of his pitiable attempt to be a macho...
...tracks," read a communique from the new (but still anonymous) arsonists. Zerzan, a soft-spoken graybeard who advocates a return to a hunter-gatherer society, applauds the fire bombers. "I'd like to see it happen every day," he says. "We're interested in destroying the system, not in macho saber rattling." Whatever you care to call it, last week Eugene's anarchist TV program ran a rap video called Bushkilla, which spliced segments of presidential assassinations with footage of George W. Bush. It wasn't funny...
...Going without sunscreen Those cloudy skies look innocuous, don?t they? That?s what they want you to think. Behind that thick gray cloud cover, the sun is blazing away, sending its rays straight through that seemingly impenetrable shield, right onto your nose/shoulders/hairline. And guys, don?t get all macho on us - despite your conviction that you are impervious to all danger, you?re going to get burned just as fast as your mom/wife/girlfriend. As one of our staffers says almost every Monday morning, when he appears in the office with a cringe-inducing sunburn: "That darn...