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Four years after the release of his Oscar-nominated documentary, Super Size Me, in which he spent 30 days eating nothing but McDonald's food, Morgan Spurlock is about to release his second feature film. This one's about his search for the most wanted man on earth. The filmmaker forgoes fast-food binges for another type of physical danger: searching for Osama bin Laden. In an interview with TIME, Spurlock opens up about his quest...
...project only slightly more quixotic, and potentially lots more dangerous, than Spurlock's last big ordeal: subsisting for a month solely on food from McDonald's. That stunt generated the 2004 Super Size Me, which grossed a fat $11.5 million at the box office (on a lean $65,000 budget) and earned an Oscar nomination. The movie also allowed Spurlock to become his own little doc-conglomerate, hosting and producing the TV series 30 Days and lending his exec-producer imprimatur to such like-minded nonfiction films as The Third Wave (Americans in post-tsunami Sri Lanka) and What Would...
...addresses one Hasidic man as "Dude.") Here's this guy doing these nutty things - all those McNuggets, all those Muslims - and behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history of nonfiction films, WITWIOBL, no less than Super-Size Me, occupies the fairly extensive, if unexplored, territory between Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jackass Number Two. (Spurlock's earliest claim to fame was the webcast and MTV show I Bet You Will, in which contestants did ugly things to win prizes...
...trumped in the Absolut auction), claimed that the price for V&S would not provide an "appropriate return" for shareholders. Yet le patron remained unperturbed. Three years ago, the company leveraged itself heavily to acquire Britain's Allied Domecq, a $13 billion deal that doubled Pernod Ricard's size at a stroke and added such brands as Beefeater gin, Ballantine's whisky and Mumm sparkling wines to the company's drinks cabinet. But the debt was speedily reduced to manageable levels, allowing Pernod Ricard to hit the M&A trail again. The changed economic outlook in the U.S.--the world...
...Scott McCown, a former district judge who now heads the Center for Public Policy Priorities, an Austin think tank that has been critical of state funding for social welfare agencies. Any parent who is indigent or can't afford a lawyer also will get legal representation. But the sheer size of the case and the number of children is going to be a "challenge for an underfunded system," McCown said...