Word: thought
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...only $18 million to make. Also not bad for a movie that began as an in-joke, Myers' personal tribute to the British goon shows his late father adored and the kooky spy spoofs young Mike watched on TV with his two older brothers. "This is essentially something I thought only people in my house would get," he says. "It should have been a home movie, really...
...Myers, invoking the best-selling trend spotter as he explains how he tapped into the retro zeitgeist. "I'd seen a lot of tie-dyed/Volkswagen van/hippie '60s, but not that mod/go-go boots/everybody's-a-photographer-or-in-a-band thing." For his new character's name, he thought of 007's Aston-Martin sports car. For the look, he borrowed Michael Caine's eyeglasses from The Ipcress File, Connery's thatchlike chest hair, the costumes from the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia and the grotty dentures he used in an SNL skit about sugar-filled British toothpaste. The supervillain...
...done, it's more exciting to me," says Stone. "That's probably a character flaw of ours. Sometimes it pays off huge, and sometimes it backfires." The angry public reaction to the first season's cliffhanger episode, which foreshadowed the second's sagging ratings, shocked them both. "We thought what everyone loved is that the show was a middle finger to convention. We were in a daze wondering how we could be so wrong about our own audience," says Parker. Adds Stone: "Basically, you can play jokes whenever you want, but you can't play one on your audience...
They seem just as thoughtful about most of their transgressions, all of which, except perhaps BASEketball, they still find funny. Orgazmo, which was written before South Park, they say is funny if thought of as a guerrilla film to be shown at Sundance to annoy local Mormons. The Down syndrome tape, which was recently purchased by the BBC, is funny, they say, not because of the newscasters but because of the uncomfortable reactions people have when dealing with the disabled. And the dancing penises? It's just that they still think dancing penises are funny...
...Some observers believe the withdrawal is both a sign of paranoia among North Korean leaders and a dogged determination to have their own way. "Hard-liners in the North are thought to oppose family reunions because they fear any contact with the outside world," says TIME Tokyo correspondent Tim Larimer. "Pyongyang needs money, food and fertilizer but it doesn?t want strings attached," he adds. "Whenever North Korea has edged to even the mildest form of engagement with the outside world, it has preceded such moves with a show of force." In other words, Pyongyang only wants help from benefactors...