Word: pranks
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Since Lies’ release, Franken has faced criticism of his work from many corners—the book has sparked an accusatory column in the Los Angeles Times, a lawsuit from Fox News and an angry backlash over a prank Franken played on Attorney General Ashcroft and other right wing figures in the drafting of the work...
...student who receives a prank call, Catalano said, should hang up the phone without engaging the caller in conversation...
...just scored the lead in the upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Ringer, about a guy who pretends to be retarded so he can enter the Special Olympics. If that doesn't make you want to give up on Western culture, consider ASHTON KUTCHER, host of the MTV prank show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page staple thanks to his dalliance with Demi Moore, but he is also morphing into a legitimate thespian (stop that giggling!). He has half a dozen movies on the way, including The Woods, from Signs auteur M. Night...
...first edition, Poor Richard predicts "the inexorable death" of his rival almanac writer Titan Leeds, giving the exact day and hour. It was a prank borrowed from Jonathan Swift. Leeds fell into the trap, and in his own almanac for 1734 (written after the date of his predicted death) called Franklin a "conceited scribbler" who had "manifested himself a fool and a liar." Poor Richard responded that all of these defamatory protestations indicated that the real Leeds must indeed be dead and his new almanac a hoax by someone else. "Mr. Leeds was too well bred...
Either this is an unusually long and elaborate episode of his prank show Punk'd, or else ASHTON KUTCHER and DEMI MOORE are an item. Kutcher, 25, and Moore, who turned 40 last year, have been spotted getting handsy with each other all over town, most recently at a party thrown by music mogul P. Diddy after the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles. Kutcher has clearly never seen St. Elmo's Fire; then again, he was 7 when it came out, and it is rated R. But maybe he could use the guidance of an older woman. Lately...