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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...feature film debut, director Dennie Gordon has Spade (Tommy Boy, Lost & Found) playing Joe Dirt, a “wig wearin’, acid wash jean lovin’, rock concert T-shirt sportin’ hero.” Lost by his parents at the Grand Canyon, Dirt and his mullet have been on their own since he was eight. Never abandoning his lifelong goal of finding his family, the adult Dirt fends for himself by working as a janitor in a Los Angeles radio station. Constantly derided for his blatant white trashiness, the station’s producers...

Author: By John PAUL M. fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grime and Punishment | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Either one would probably be fine with this increasingly bitter, savage bunch of beaten-down summer campers, as long as there was plenty of crisp, refreshing Bud Light to wash it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Very Stormy 'Survivor,' the Placid One Goes Gently | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

...Smart on Wash Day Wash laundry in warm or cold water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: What You Can Do | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

DIED. FRANCIS YOHANNAN, 79, World War II bombardier and inspiration for the antihero Captain Yossarian in Joseph Heller's satiric novel Catch-22; in Spokane, Wash. Yohannan, who served with Heller in Corsica, was not a rebel; in the Air Force, he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 9, 2001 | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Making things even tougher, phobias are often hard to distinguish from other anxiety disorders. A person who feels compelled to wash or shower dozens of times a day may have a phobic's terror of germs, but a clinician would easily peg the problem as obsessive-compulsive disorder, not a specific phobia. The survivor of an airline crash may exhibit a phobic's panic at even a picture of a plane, but likely as not, the fear is one component of a larger case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Different conditions require different treatments, and without the right care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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