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Seth MacFarlane is the writer, producer, and creator of the popular Fox animated comedies Family Guy and American Dad. Both launch their new seasons Sunday, Sept. 28. MacFarlane, who also voices several roles on Family Guy (including that of alcoholic dog Brian) spoke to TIME from Los Angeles...
...Like what? Like Rubik the Amazing Cube. They did an animated series in the '80s that was based on Rubik's Cube, which was popular at the time. The premise was - I'm not making this up - that these three Hispanic children find a Rubik's Cube, and every time they solve it, it flies and helps them solve crimes. I swear it's real. Look it up on YouTube. It's ridiculous...
Even for sophisticated New York theatergoers, there's nothing like a little onstage nudity to get the blood flowing. Even better, a little nudity involving perhaps the best-known child actor in the world. Daniel Radcliffe, who has played Harry Potter in five (going on six) hugely popular movies, made his stage debut last year in a London revival of Equus - Peter Shaffer's acclaimed 1973 play about a stable boy who, in an inexplicable act of violence, has blinded six horses with a metal spike. The big news, however, was not the first glimpse of Radcliffe's acting chops...
That kind of good fortune, divine or not, has helped Lula, 62, a former steelworkers' union leader and high school dropout, become Brazil's most popular President in a half-century. The oil find could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers, but even without that bounty, the economy has been growing as vigorously as a guava tree in the Amazon rain forest, allowing Brazil to start reducing its epic social inequality. Economic strength has also allowed the country to flex its diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula...
...Amy’s dad, a creepy, tactless adulterer who asks his daughter, “Do you really want to go to school with a bunch of sluts?” as Amy chooses whether to go to a school for pregnant girls. The awkward references to once-popular culture are even better: Ben advises his friends that “Dex isn’t sudoku,” and Graces’ dad angrily advises his daughter’s ex-boyfriend Jack, “Why don’t you buy a vowel...