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Sandler's comic gift is that he can make a weirdo like Egan sympathetic without being sentimental. He never resorts to the emotional tics so beloved by comedians in dramatic roles. Despite the violent physicality of some of his characters, Sandler himself seems to lack the underlying rage that fuels other comics' work. Says Lorne Michaels, who was Sandler's boss on Saturday Night Live: "There's something that's essentially optimistic about him. He's one of the few people I know who's not embarrassed about doing comedy. He think it's a high goal...
...Known weirdo Rick J. Mays ’03, who was once described by a former partner as “bearing the inescapable odor of regrettable life decisions,” brought several additional pungent aromas into the life and bathroom of new squeeze Lana V. Jarrett ’02 Saturday night. After drinking Triple Sec straight from the bottle for several hours, Mays stumbled to a freshman common room and attempted to dislodge a bolted-down painting with his face before returning to Jarrett’s room and stripping in her hallway in an attempt...
...wonderfully candid interviews with Southern - in which he notes, among other things, that the film director is, for the most part, "an interfering parasite," and "much of your time [as a screenwriter] will be spent in a creative wasteland" -- the single most revealing piece in "Dig" is "King Weirdo," his ode to his first literary hero, Edgar Allen Poe. Southern's singular fascination for Poe's duplicitous frame device in "A. Gordon Pym" -- which insists that the story you're reading is an account of actual events submitted to Poe -- is reflected in several of his own short stories, including...
...public can't get enough of him. He's probably the best symbol of a Japan desperate for leaders who are anything but the losers who mismanaged the country for the past decade. Like wavy-haired, bold-talking Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who revels in being nicknamed "weirdo," Tanaka got power by talking Big and talking New. Last September, six weeks before the prefecture's gubernatorial election, the newspaper diarist and award-winning novelist announced he was taking on the hand-picked successor of the Liberal Democratic Party stalwart who had held the office captive for two decades...
...this weirdo find himself at the top of the political heap? The usual way the L.D.P. picks Japan's leaders is for a handful of party bosses to meet behind closed doors, pour a few glasses of sake and anoint someone. This time, a clique of young L.D.P. lawmakers demanded more transparency in choosing a successor to Yoshiro Mori. The Old Guard went along, thinking it could manipulate a vote as usual while presenting a facade of democracy. But the aging party chieftains badly miscalculated just how unloved they are. When they gave a bigger say to local party chapters...