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...bile. Befriended by such comics artists as R. Crumb, Pekar starts turning out stories for them to illustrate. These anticomics, from which American Splendor gets its title, together with some appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, grant him underground fame but never enough money to quit...
...Romanian revolution, he sold it to a dealer in the West. The $2,000 price, an undreamed-of fortune, not only bought him a secondhand auto, it also prompted a decision. Frustrated by what he calls the "old-style communist-worker mentality" ingrained in his factory colleagues, he quit his job, calculating that he and his wife, working from home, could build two Strad-style violins a month and support their family. A year later he began setting up his own factory...
When Fayek Kudayar Abbas quit his job translating for U.S. troops at the end of May, he thought the threats against him and his family would end. Abbas had worked for the Americans because the $40-a-week salary went a long way toward taking care of his wife and daughters. At first he tolerated harassment from some of his neighbors, who accused him of betraying his country by cooperating with the occupying forces. But as resistance to the U.S. intensified, Abbas found himself in even greater danger. A month after he stopped working with the Americans, his name showed...
...didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative...
...Illarramendi, and Frenchman Claude Recart were captured when French antiterrorist officers raided their house in Cahors. Police also discovered 448 kg of explosives and a number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation into Berlusconi's business dealings. Castelli had vetoed the probe into Berlusconi's Mediaset company, but reversed the decision, with Berlusconi's agreement, after the coalition partners threatened to walk; Castelli then survived a no-confidence vote...