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...Virgin was an idea Steve Carell had from doing improv. Knocked Up drew on Apatow's experiences of becoming a father, but it borrowed heavily from Rogen's foulmouthed stoner worldview. This was the knock against Apatow, which he mocked in a famous heated e-mail exchange with Mark Brazill, a co-creator of That '70s Show, who accused him of stealing one of his ideas for a Ben Stiller Show sketch and then wished cancer on him. Apatow wrote, "As for the cancer, I'll wait till you get it and then steal it from...
...radio, the Senator had sounded definite. "Formal announcement: I am in. Then the actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime - October, November - that, in that time frame," she told Fort Worth WBAP-AM talk-radio host Mark Davis. In 2006, she had indicated she might challenge him and then backed off. "No one expected him to run again, and I stepped back last time," she told Davis. But this time, she said, there would be no "free pass" for Perry. Later, she told reporters in a Capitol presser: "He can really help in many ways if he doesn...
...opposition scheduled protests on July 30 to mark the 40-day anniversary - a religiously significant date in the Islamic mourning cycle - of the death of 26-year-old Agha-Soltan, whose last moments were captured on video, which circulated around the world. The regime has been deeply concerned about the commemoration of her death. Similar 40-day anniversaries in 1979 fueled the unrest that led to the ouster of the Shah and onset of the Islamic revolution. (Read "Tehran Braces for Another Day of Street Battles...
...rather from an old face of Italian public life. Vittorio Sgarbi - an art-critic provocateur and lifelong political carpetbagger, having held key posts in the Italian Cultural Ministry and Milan city council - is now mayor of the small Sicilian town of Salemi, which is trying to make its mark on the map as a major wine-producing region. "We have to teach young people to drink Italian wine," Sgarbi declared to the AGI news agency last week. "If there's something to ban, it's Coca-Cola, Fanta and other disgusting [products]. I invite all young people to Salemi where...
...height of his career, Gatti lost three consecutive fights but none of his importance. His paychecks actually went up. Every fight was like a life-or-death crucible, and somehow he would survive to box again. Every fighter has a bout or two that mark the epitome of what he can do. Gatti had about 10 of them...