Word: stunts
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BEEF: Globalization makes the world, like, rilly dull STUNT: Crashed the downtown Christmas parade, dancing behind the mayor...
BEEF: Lousy, processed food STUNT: Noisy picnic press conference with cheese and French bread in front of McDonald...
...very very very cool. It was just awesome. I was like, "My God, I'm fighting Darth Maul." [The stunt double for the Headless Horsemen also played Darth Mall in Star Wars: Episode One]. The coordinator was the same coordinator from Episode One. And this 24-year-old kid is asking me "Do you think I need an agent?" And I was just like, "Can I have your autograph...
...most ethically challenged of the big three tabloids? (It was the Globe that set up Frank Gifford's hotel tryst with a former airline attendant, prompting a censorious New York Times op-ed piece by Enquirer editor Steve Coz.) Pecker says the Globe will "absolutely not" pull such a stunt again. Still, he says, "we're going to cover the spice and the controversy of the story. It's going to really be, shall I say, the unvarnished story...
...spark that started what came to be called the collegiate "fish wars" of our grandparent's generation occurred right in Boston. It was 60 years ago, March 3, 1939, when the very first goldfish was gulped by Lothrop Withington Jr. in a campaign publicity stunt at Boston College. A candidate for freshman class president, Withington staged the swallowing to attract attention, after his friends gave him the idea with a $10 bet. Hungry for votes, anxious to collect his money, and most probably motivated by a prescient sense of history, the enterprising student invited Boston journalists to the event. Company...