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...database of criminals, and get back any hits. How hard is it for bad guys to game the system with a beard, a baseball cap or colored contact lenses? Mohamed Lazzouni, the company's chief technology officer, says they would have to change their bone structure to spoof the technology...
Secrets in the burbs is a hoary theme, and Weeds begins unfortunately, with the suburbia-spoof folk classic Little Boxes ("... and they all look just the same") playing over the credits. Showtime likes to hammer viewers with its high concepts--The L Word, Fat Actress--and the note tied to this particular brick is, "This comedy will satirize the suburbs." But Weeds proves far more complex about Nancy and her neighbors. She's a criminal and a fiercely caring mom, a hypocrite with true morals. Even her superficial neighbor Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), who nicknames her chubby daughter "Isabelly," proves...
...bible for young single women who want to live large and love large. The reader wants candid sexual advice and relationship advice, and that's part of our trademark. But she also loves the over-the-top quality. So if Jay Leno isn't mocking it, or doing a spoof on it, or reading our coverlines - if he's not doing that regularly, maybe I've pulled back too much...
...licenses a comet logo, has enticed nearly a dozen businesses to slap the trademark onto products such as running shoes and cocktail mixes. General Comet also sells its own paraphernalia, including elegantly engraved "comet stock" certificates at a mere $9.95 per 100 shares. "We started this as a lighthearted spoof," says Ryan, "but the response has been overwhelming." Two years ago, a pair of air-traffic controllers in Albuquerque launched Astroline Products, selling Halley's pins, caps and traveling bags part time. Now the business is growing at a staggering 15% a month. Says Co-Owner Larry Lawton: "It surpassed...
...Reiner on Your Show of Shows; in Los Angeles. His goofiness enhanced such roles as Ernest T. Bass, a would-be country Casanova on The Andy Griffith Show,and he went on to direct such TV shows as Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched and the Mel Brooks-Buck Henry spy spoof Get Smart...