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More than anyone else in comedy since vaudeville died, Rogen is a prot??gé. Sure, he had been writing scripts with Goldberg after school, and his mom drove him to stand-up gigs at Yuk Yuk's (his retort to hecklers: "I'm 13. In 30 years, I'll be 43. You'll be dead"). He had even been paid by a mohel to write jokes. But ever since he dropped out of high school, Rogen has studied exclusively under Apatow...
...bank and believes in the Free Parking--jackpot rule.) But Tony's personal crises--getting older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) proved unsuited to lead; prot??gé Christopher (Michael Imperioli) is off making his low-budget Mafia-slasher movie, with a pseudo-Tony played by Daniel Baldwin. ("Imitation's a form of flattery," Tony says with a shrug. "He's a tough prick, that Baldwin...
Kaysen has also attracted impressive mentors, including Daniel Boulud, the award-winning French chef who owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas and Palm Beach, Fla., and Charlie Trotter, the famed Chicago chef who has been a Bocuse judge. Both have high hopes for their prot??gé. "Gavin has the passion for French cuisine, a very good palate, and he's a master of technique and timing," says Boulud. "And he's very meticulous and detail oriented, which is crucial." Trotter, who has been following Kaysen's career since the younger chef applied for an internship in his kitchen...
...hard to believe that the incessant ball hogging of the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant was anywhere near the achievements made in the postseason by the Redbirds in their first year in the new Busch Stadium. Not only that, but Tony LaRussa managed circles around his longtime friend and prot??gé, the Detroit Tigers' Jim Leyland. So Bryant scored 81 points in a game, big deal. How many times did he pass the ball...
...scenes document wizard who knew every word Kerry had said and remixed those words for effect, chose McCain. Matt Rhoades, 31, the former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are prot??gés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Schmidt taught the cadre--some of whom are now in charge of large staffs at the '08 campaigns--that the news cycle ends with...