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...citizens. Honest Abe must spin in his grave every time the G.O.P. refers to itself as the party of Lincoln. Huckabee has little chance of getting the nomination with his do-unto-others mentality. That kind of thinking just doesn't pass muster in today's Republican Party. Mark McKay, PASCOAG...
...demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer and director on Anchorman and Talladega Nights. Judd Apatow, director of The 40-Year Old Virgin and a producer on three Ferrell films, says, "Most comedians are neurotic and needy, but Will is unique in that his process isn't fueled by suffering. He's just this...
Given some of the things that come out of his mind and mouth, there are those who find Ferrell's ascent to multiplex stardom somewhat mystifying. "When you look at some of the characters he creates," says McKay, "I mean, it's seriously bizarre that Will's a huge movie star." On the page, most of Ferrell's characters seem designed to give audiences headaches--or a sexually transmitted disease. "I do really enjoy messing with people," says Ferrell of such politically incorrect roles as over-the-top sexists (Ron Burgundy, Chazz Reinhold in Wedding Crashers), fetishists (Big Earl...
...City, Ferrell would find the most ordinary painting in a museum and bawl in front of it. While at SNL, he even cultivated an unusual fondness for bombing. "If a sketch bombs, a lot of times you'll see a performer just hit the beats and get out," says McKay, a former head writer on the show. "Will would drag it out and make it longer, like, 'No, no, you're going to be listening to this for a while yet.' He has no problem with beats of silence and awkwardness. He loves that stuff...
...case, according to John McKay, a fired U.S. attorney from Washington State, both White House counsel Miers and a Republican member of Congress raised the issue of voter fraud in the state's close 2004 election. McKay told lawmakers that when he met Miers and other Administration officials to review his fitness for a position as a judge, she asked him why he had "mishandled" the 2004 election, apparently by not bringing voter fraud cases that might have tipped the balance toward the Republican candidate, who ultimately lost. McKay did not receive a judicial nomination...