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MARINE GENERAL PETER PACE, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after calling homosexuality immoral in a defense of the military's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Mar. 26, 2007 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...hear Peters tell it, he was never interested in running anything but Tom Peters. He says he got talked into lending his name to some smart people he liked so that they could do consulting and leadership training. Meanwhile, he was writing, catching successive waves of the business zeitgeist and playing the lecture circuit. "I have worked at building a brand but not through training and consulting," Peters says. "I'm an ideas person." If Bluepoint says they're doing better without him, he says with a chuckle, "Good for them. I love those guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Leading! Without! Tom! Peters! | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...like I do have some sort of skill," and his peers marvel at the ease with which he carries them off. "When he did the song at the Oscars with Jack Black and John C. Reilly," says Apatow, "he had people over at his house. He didn't even tell them where he was going. He just slipped out and said, 'Oh, I gotta go do this thing.'" "Well, that is true," says Ferrell, "but I literally live up the hill from the Kodak Theater, so it was just clocking in, clocking out. But before we went on, Jack, John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...gratuitous about it," says Ferrell, who streaked in Old School, ran around a speedway in his underwear in Talladega, was a shirtless Bible salesman on SNL, worked out bare chested in his office in Anchorman and ... you get the point. "In Blades we do a thing where I tell the story of my life"--wearing only a towel--"with my tattoos, but that's for story purposes." He's laughing now. "I'm trying to think. Do we do it in Semi-Pro? No, I think I'm fine. Oh, there's one photo of me with a basketball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Ferrell: Brilliant Idiot | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...never interviewed by these gentlemen, and much of their little story is a complete lie. There were never any nude scenes shot during or after a day's shooting. I have never posed in the nude above or below the waist. Like Lucifer, publications of this ilk tell a little truth and slip the lies in like chopped liver in a sandwich. The gullible don't know they've been had till they get sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Mar. 26, 2007 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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