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That said, Cook asserts that Woods is being subjected to a public double standard: we expect him to tell us and the police more about his private life than he should have to, "certainly more than Joe Schmo would probably have to offer under similar circumstances." That may be so, but if investigators do eventually find evidence that Woods hasn't been as up-front as he should have been - that he might have been under the influence of painkillers after last year's knee surgery, or that he and his Swedish model wife (who told police she smashed...
...those of Karl Marx, Robert E. Lee, Marcel Proust - and presumably a horde of unfamous letter-writers as well. "I really wish we could have gotten some ordinary people," says Dean. "But unfortunately, their letters are rarely preserved in a comprehensive way. Nobody cares about the letters of Joe Schmo who lived in 1873." (See the 100 best novels of all time...
...today, as opening statements commence at Padilla's federal criminal trial in Miami, he seems little more than some poor schmo who the government says got mixed up in a vague plan to support terrorist mischief abroad...
...stare at a picture of Kim Jong Il, even Joe Schmo off the street will come up with that visual,” Breen said...
...birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk." So how's this for irony: it was WILLIAM SHATNER who made them look foolish. For a new reality show called Invasion Iowa, scheduled to air on Spike TV in February, executive producers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese (the team responsible for Joe Schmo) asked Shatner to move into Riverside with a fake entourage and crew and pretend to shoot a sci-fi movie. Townsfolk were hired for the bogus production. Throughout the eight-day shoot, Shatner played an increasingly absurd, over-the-top version of himself. "The last thing...