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...played by Kevin Farley, brother of the late comic Chris Farley. The actor shares Moore's blocky build but not his politics: in real life, Farley is a Republican. So are the actors who play three ghosts who visit Malone to awaken his patriotism--Kelsey Grammer as George Patton, Jon Voight as George Washington and Chriss Anglin as Republicans' favorite Democrat, John F. Kennedy. Conservative country singer Trace Adkins shows up as the angel of death, and Bill O'Reilly plays another imposing figure: himself. To persuade Malone, the ghosts frighten him with visions of classic liberal villains--zombie ACLU...
...announced a $1.04 billion investment in Grupo Iusacell, a Mexican cellular- phone company, the day before unveiling its plans to buy TCI. Yet the deal raised serious doubts about whether the imperious Malone could peacefully coexist with the studious Smith. ''The U.S. Army wasn't big enough for Generals Patton and Bradley,'' notes Ronald Altman, who watches the communications industry for the firm Furman Selz. ''The question is, will Bell Atlantic be big enough for both Smith and Malone?'' Others speculated that Malone would soon be running the company. But Smith, 55, hardly seemed worried. ''John has expressed his interest...
During those giddy, unexpected days when the cold war unraveled - when hippies in Prague sang passionate ballads not about Che Guevara but General George Patton - there was no denying that our world had been transformed. A century scarred by world wars, genocide and the fear of nuclear annihilation seemed to vanish before our eyes. This genuine euphoria, embraced by left and right alike, was captured in Francis Fukuyama's 1992 best seller The End of History and the Last Man, in which he argued that we may have reached "the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization...
...Apple, he said, the cops are basically in it for the money, knowing that bribes and kickbacks will put their kids through college. L.A. cops, Aldrich said, are honest, crusading and sadistic: they get their charge from pulverizing the ones they tab as bad. Ludlow, who has a Patton-size flag outside his home and whom another cop calls "L.A.'s deadliest white boy," fits into this latter category. "We're the police," he tells a greener officer (Chris Evans) who partners with him. "We can do whatever the hell we want." And, later: "Truth doesn't matter, only...
...world's appetite for Yum's fast food. Not everybody thinks that's a good thing. After all, this is the company whose top-selling new product is the KFC Famous Bowl: breaded, fried chicken strips, corn, cheese, gravy and mashed potatoes--a 710-calorie dish that the comedian Patton Oswalt calls a "failure pile in a sadness bowl." Fast foods--even those that mimic local cuisines--represent a dramatic change in diet for many cultures. "When you offer high-calorie food to a thin population, they go from small to large very quickly and begin to develop signs...