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...celebration of International Pillow Fight Day, Boston decided to go all out for a city-wide pillow fight in Christopher Columbus Park in the North End this afternoon. Hundreds of children, students, adults, and even a few intrepid senior citizens braved the windy weather for this all-out feathery showdown...
Cerny, a proud provocateur, recently won some notoriety with a prankish sculpture at the European Union headquarters in Brussels mocking European stereotypes - the giant piece depicts France as a strike placard, Romania as a vampire theme park, the Netherlands as a submerged set of mosques and Bulgaria as a squat toilet. But even Cerny is happy that Obama is visiting. "It's a miracle that he is paying us a visit, after all," he says. "Well, he could have gone to Brussels...
...make it a period piece because kids will think it's about a different generation, and then some were asking me: Well, why doesn't James just go to New York and get a job at The New Yorker? Why is he such a loser at an amusement park? And I was sort of like: I'm pretty sure you came from money. You can't just go to New York with nothing in your pocket - even...
...really get into a fistfight with someone who played one of your games at the amusement park? Not at that job, but there were definitely some jobs where things got heated. I was usually the one who knew how not to get his ass kicked - to run faster than the other guy, or to get a few insults in and then get the hell out of there. I'm not quite as chivalrous as James is in the movie...
...from your carny days, what would be your perfect afternoon at the amusement park? Which snack, which ride? Even though we make fun of corn dogs in the movie, I actually think they're quite tasty, and when we were shooting the movie I got to ride these wooden roller coasters at the park in Pittsburgh which were some of the best I've ever been on. Later, the guys told me that they had taken off the brakes to make it extra scary for us. But I love bumper cars and I have a specific memory of being with...