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...sang I Will Survive b) showed scenes from Gladiator c) carved a spud in the shape of F.D.R. d) got a "Born Killer" tattoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 10, 2000 | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...POTATO HEAD Rhode Island names plastic spud "travel ambassador." Can Malibu Barbie get California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 3, 2000 | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...directorial debut, Gummo, Korine attempted to "push humor to extreme limits" by provoking random passers-by into fistfights and then filming the results with hand-held cameras. The filmmaker's latest audacious feature, the uniquely bizarre julien donkey-boy, strips cinema to even barer levels. Starring Ewan Bremner ("Spud" from Trainspotting) and Chlo Sevigny ("Jennie" from Kids), the film provides a keyhole view into the life of a schizophrenic and his disturbingly dysfunctional family. Using no formal script and few special effects, donkey-boy is at once an avant-garde "art house" film that nobody will see and a strikingly...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spunky donkey a Little Too Funky | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...course, most true love occurs well outside of the nation's capital. So, CP's valentine to you, dear reader is this spud's intimate compilation of love tales -- sweet and violent, sick and saccharine, doomed and otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love in the Time of Potato | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

...Jones is vindicated: we see that some 16 million years ago, the slapstick asteroid A slammed into planet B (Mars, the fourth rock from the sun), dislodging spud-size meteorite C, which spitballed through space and whammed into planet D (Earth). Betimes, the alien microspud wakes up in the Antarctic and assumes the shape of an outlandishly hot idea, E (LIFE ON MARS!!!!), which pinballs hectically through Earthling media, knocking vases off the mantelpiece, toppling assumptions, causing tabloid amazement and theological consternation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARS AS DIVINE CARTOON | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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