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...crack their late-night caricatures by matching wits with the creators of those caricatures. When Gore showed up on Letterman recently, he scored with his prepared material ("I gave you the Internet; I can take it away"), a gag the Modern Humorist, a website, claims Gore lifted. But the payoff for Gore came when David Letterman joked that the show was actually a fund raiser and that Gore would be out in the audience "to collect your thousand dollars." The Buddhist temple just hasn't had the same sting since...
...crack their late-night caricatures by matching wits with the creators of those caricatures. When Gore showed up on Letterman recently, he scored with his prepared material ("I gave you the Internet; I can take it away"), a gag the Modern Humorist, a website, claims Gore lifted. But the payoff for Gore came when David Letterman joked that the show was actually a fund raiser and that Gore would be out in the audience "to collect your thousand dollars." The Buddhist temple just hasn't had the same sting since...
...Lesson One (The Payoff Mix)" Double Dee and Steinski (Tommy Boy promo) Hip-hop requiring no turntable skills and no rapping ability, therefore massively inspiring for people in the U.K. Launched the phenomenon of bedroom producers...
...Barnes and Nobles afterwards.' 'Oh, can I borrow your cellphone?' etc. etc. Neither of us brought up the movie for the rest of the night. Why would we? The Perfect Storm had absolutely nothing going for it-no character development, no suspense (we all knew the real story), no payoff. It would have played better as an IMAX two-hour CGI wave fest. And just as I tuned out in The Patriot to start asking myself important questions about the film's subject matter, I did the same for The Perfect Storm. Did they slaughter real fish for the packing...
...with monuments--and monumental agendas? Very carefully. This is the approach of the folks at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, who organized a design competition that has drawn 871 entries; the winner will be announced this fall. While the prize, $20,000, is small, the payoff is big; the Vietnam War memorial, awarded in a similar competition, made the career of then undergraduate student Maya...