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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bookworm character," says Russell Brand, the English comedian who played a rock star in the movie. "Eventually it was decided that no one could expect me to do any actual acting. I think he's very interested in truth, so he has a good intuition about people's essence." Sean (Diddy) Combs co-stars in next year's Apatow-produced Get Him to the Greek, in which Jonah Hill has to transport Brand's rock-star character to a gig at the Greek Theater in L.A. "I prepared the script like any audition," Combs says. "When I walked in, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Judd Apatow Seriously | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...actors until they're so worn down that they can't think of anything to say other than something personal - or funny. After a scene in Get Him to the Greek, director Nick Stoller runs off triumphantly, shaking his fists in the air. "We did it! We got Sean to make a gay joke!" he yells. "They got me. They turned me out," says Combs, shaking his head as he walks away. One night, with 1,300 extras at the Greek Theater at 11 o'clock, Apatow suggests yet another shoot of Brand's rock performance with pyrotechnics. He enlists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Judd Apatow Seriously | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...Well, all of us look dull in comparison to Sarah Palin, so that's not really a fault of Sean Parnell's...Some people are weary of the drama." - Alaska Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis. (KTUU, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...Sean Parnell has a tough act to follow. Emerging from the wings after Alaska Governor and former GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin stepped down July 26, the new governor, 46, shares his predecessor's conservative values but is her temperamental opposite. Palin's larger-than-life personality captivated the country; Parnell, by contrast, is known for a low-key demeanor that verges on bland. A former political rival, for instance, once referred to him as "Captain Zero," while the Anchorage Press has dubbed him "the oatmeal governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...consensus, and Greene's latest findings suggest that activity in the prefrontal cortex may in fact represent truth-telling in some people. "There is a great deal of variation between the findings described, and, crucially, there is an absence of replication by investigators of their own findings," wrote Sean Spence, a well-respected deception researcher at the University of Sheffield, in a 2008 critique of 16 peer-reviewed articles describing the neural correlates of lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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