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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Ricky Gervais must know he's cute. Cute like the grinning kid in the back row of a sixth-grade classroom, smiling at the teacher as he mutters a rude observation about how she looks from behind. He's cartoon-animal round and ingratiatingly impish. Yet Gervais, in films and on TV, keeps harping on his diminutive stature and lack of a heroic jawline. He might almost be begging for the viewer to reply, "No, you're not at all tremendously unattractive. The word for you, Ricky, would be cute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pants on Fire! The Inspired Invention of Lying | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...asked him to play the Shoe Fairy--one of the show's many celebrity fairies--Harris agreed to put on wings and sing and dance about footwear. With a slight rewrite. "He's called the Fairy Shoe Person!" he says when I get the name wrong. "Don't be rude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Patrick Harris: Emmy Host with the Most | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...never dreamed that they would become so uncivil and so rude. But the town halls are exactly what I wanted to see. Those town halls, in a word, bring back accountability. (Read "How to Speak Like a Real Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pollster Frank Luntz, Warrior with Words | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...that moment, a voice rang out telling Hackbart not to make the rude gesture in public. "So I was like, How dare that person tell me? They obviously didn't see what happened. Who are they to tell me what to say?" he says. "So I flipped that person off. And then I looked, and it was a city of Pittsburgh cop in his car right next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Officers clearly have varying levels of tolerance for rudeness from the people they encounter, he says, but he expressed little sympathy for anyone making rude remarks to or gestures toward officers. "Police officers have better things to do than give people citations," he says. "And if people are doing things to distract police officers from doing those things, then they should be held accountable in some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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