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...Vinton: I had an ah-ha moment on a summer motorcycle trip across country. I was looking for mom and pop diners and authentic flavor. I thought that bounty would just be before us. There would be fruits and vegetables everywhere. I expected family farms. I found just the opposite was true. The family farms were absolutely melting into the ground. They were disappearing, and the rural communities that depended on agriculture were boarded up and abandoned, because they had been bought out by agri-business...
...Your mom, an astrologist, advised you to take the role. Does she give you a lot of career advice? Every now and then. She had ideas about casting the Elemental character in The Chronicles of Riddick. She thought it should be Judi Dench. So I hoofed it out to London and enrolled the dame...
...that reason, you won't eat as much. It's a simple way, without making a huge change in your lifestyle. The other thing that "nuts" stand for is "nagging unfinished tasks." There are two kinds of stress that age us. There are the big life events-your mom dies. Everyone acknowledges that those are big issues for humans to cope with, but they're not that many of them. The other kind of stress that hurts you is not the stress at work, it's not the stress from driving- it's the nagging unfinished tasks, the torn screen...
Notice anything different lately about Mom's TV-viewing habits? Does she watch for hours on end, clutching her credit card in one hand and the telephone in the other? Is she smitten with a TV personality named Budget Bob? Has she started getting packages in the mail that contain everything from ersatz diamond rings to brass eagles? And what about Dad? Has he been babbling about someone on TV named Bubblin' Bobbi? Is his workshop suddenly overflowing with tools, gadgets and trinkets that keep arriving via United Parcel Service...
...Like many other American consumers, Mom and Dad may be hooked on home shopping, the hottest concept in television since rock videos hit the tube. The rapidly proliferating shopping programs feature friendly but persistent announcers who promote an array of bargain-priced products and implore viewers to order them (right now!) by calling toll-free numbers. Designed to spur impulse purchases, the programs combine the glitter of a game show, the hard sell of an old Veg-O-Matic commercial and the fervor of a telethon. About 20 home-shopping programs have appeared on the screen, and more...