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...think you realized that at the time? I think I sort of did and sort of didn't. One of the truest things ever said about hip-hop, I think, was by Busta Rhymes: "Rap is funny. If you don't get the humor, it's terrifying...
...write a lot about rap both at the Onion and in the book. I really identified with hip-hop growing up. There was this incredibly pure anger, sort of free-floating rage towards everything and everyone. And growing up in a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, my God, we just inhabited that space. We were able to take the hip-hop tropes - hating authority, and hating the police - and use it for our own lives. It felt so empowering that you could come from nothing and become a god. Like all fantasies, it was an illusion. If you look...
...mass audience until his Borat became a surprise hit in 2006, earning more than $260 million at theaters worldwide on an $18 million budget. Yet Brüno's box-office decline from Friday to Saturday indicates that the film's brand of outrage was not the sort to please most moviegoers - and that their tut-tutting got around fast. Brüno could be the first movie defeated by the Twitter effect. (See pictures of Sacha Baron Cohen's outrageous Brüno promotions...
...Baron Cohen, whose first job after graduating from Cambridge University was as a fashion model, deserves credit for pushing further than he did in Borat. He's beyond brazen in his forced marriage of suicide raids on homophobes and the cartoon mockery of rural Southerners - sort of al-Qaeda and Al Capp. But he and Universal (which paid a hefty $42.5 million for rights to the movie and launched a worldwide marketing campaign that brought the pre-release tab to about $100 million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred...
...people and nations correctly • Putin is met by without subsequent claim to have been able to look him in the eye and "get a sense of his soul" • Rahm Emanuel's implication that the White House is willing to cave on the public health care option is sort of disputed by while also being sort of confirmed by • Vice President Biden's gaffe - that is, his accidental blurt of truth - that "we misread how bad the economy was" is disputed by, as is subsequent Biden blurt that the U.S. gave Israel carte blanche to attack Iran...