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...Fernando Jones and the Temple of Poon, as well as about 100 mainstream movies, such as The Boondock Saints with Willem Dafoe. He tells the story of his XXX-rated career in a steamy new book, The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz: Horny Women, Hollywood Nights & The Rise of the Hedgehog! (Harper). And yes, it's illustrated. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Jeremy from his Hollywood home: (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...goal is to introduce the candidate to the country. (To paraphrase what was said about both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton when they launched their presidential campaigns, Obama is famous without being well known.) Under a spotlight more intense than anything he has experienced in his remarkable four-year rise from the Illinois state senate to White House contender, Obama must contextualize himself for the many voters who are just tuning in - to tell them about where he comes from, what experiences have shaped his values and what he has accomplished. Just as important as saying it himself...
...Obama's rise has demonstrated so far that a lot of that protest worked, and this latest wave of black politicians is living, breathing evidence of it. Only one generation removed from the protests their parents led, many are Ivy League graduates in their 30s, 40s and 50s who remember the 1960s-and even the 1970s-only from old video and the printed page...
...believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth...
...Wednesday evening, the dimensions of the worst Spanish air accident in the last 30 years were clear: of Spanair flight 5022's 172 passengers and crew, 153 were dead. The other 19 people onboard were all injured, many of them seriously enough that the death toll is predicted to rise...