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...Michael Ian Black's cynical, self-effacing performances in the sketch-comedy show The State and the subsequent college-dormitory hit Wet Hot American Summer generated a cult following. But the comedian is probably most recognizable as a snarky commentator on VH1's I Love the '80s nostalgia series. His latest endeavor is the Comedy Central show Michael and Michael Have Issues, which debuts July 15 and co-stars fellow State alum Michael Showalter. TIME talked to Black about his career, tacos and whether or not he really loves the '80s. (See a history of stand-up comedy in pictures...
...Qaeda and Al Capp. But he and Universal (which paid a hefty $42.5 million for rights to the movie and launched a worldwide marketing campaign that brought the pre-release tab to about $100 million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred the filmmakers to remove a scene in which Brüno asks La Toya Jackson for the King of Pop's phone number. (See pictures of a post-Michael Jackson family tree...
...consummate globalized citizen, and makes a point of reaching out to those in other nations who share his sense of international community. "He'll put in a full day in the Parliament and then, because of the time difference, call world leaders way into the night," says Michael Fullilove, director of the global-issues program at the Lowy Institute in Sydney and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Rudd's late-night conversations, one presumes, turn on his conviction that if his nation of 21 million people is to confront the triple challenge of recession, climate...
...want to make this statement. This is a real good statement here: Marshall and I--we own a record company.' JOE JACKSON, plugging his new business venture during an interview about the death of his son, pop icon Michael Jackson...
...aside, it's questionable whether a 24-hour Olympic-themed network is viable at all. The state of the economy presents any new, expensive venture with challenges. And though the ratings for the Beijing Games were strong - driven by interest in China and in the epic quest of swimmer Michael Phelps - it doesn't follow that there's even a speck of demand for Olympic programming in non-Olympic years. Given the already cluttered and competitive sports-television landscape, who wants to watch Taekwondo or table tennis on a Saturday afternoon in October? Or November? Or April? "The chances...