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...you have a cat, you probably suspect it wants two things: infinite luxury and you gone. In this SpongeBobian romp, a feline trio inherit a fortune from their late owner and indulge their fantasies. In various episodes, megalomaniac Mr. Blik travels to the moon in search of an ingredient for a barbecue recipe, sweethearted Gordon tries to find a unicorn, and ditzy Waffle hunts the world's most wicked mouse. You'll laugh till you cough up a fur ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 6 Smart Kids-TV Shows | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...Governor, both women, who by then had left their jobs, volunteered to help. In August they launched AmendforArnold.com The battle has been joined. After seeing the ads, Alex Jones, a Texas-based radio-talk-show host, launched ArnoldExposed.com His group--Americans Against Arnold--alleges that the Governor is "a megalomaniac with aspirations of being a dictator." Just a matter of time until Weight Lifters for Truth gets into the game. --By Perry Bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arnold's Groupies | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...either an idiot or a megalomaniac, but I believe this company still has value." CALISTO TANZI, deposed founder and former executive of Italian dairy giant Parmalat, during a police interrogation into the alleged fraud that left the company with debts of nearly $17 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...revolution. What's bold? Well, for a start, the conception of the main characters. Except for young Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig, who a few years later became Lassie's best friend on TV), they are weak or venal. Dr. Terwilliker (the sublimely snide Hans Conried) is a musical megalomaniac who wants every child in the world to learn his Happy Fingers piano technique. Bart's mother Henrietta (Mary Healy) is hypnotized by the bad Doctor into becoming "second in charge of the whole Happy Fingers racket." And the putative hero, the music-loving plumber August Zabladowski (Peter Lind Hayes, Healy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

Paris without us - well, that would be rather a different story," says Jean-Louis Costes with just a hint of a smile, and if you don't know the man you might think he's an amiable megalomaniac. After all, most Parisians have never heard of Costes or his brother Gilbert; they rarely speak to the press. But if you've spent even a weekend in Paris, it's a good bet they have taken your money and shown you a good time. The Costes brothers are limonadiers, French slang for café owners, but theirs is a lemonade empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brothers Who Ate Paris | 9/7/2003 | See Source »

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