Word: wildes
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...single (King Tut). He played to arenas of 20,000 people. As David Letterman once noted, "I think that's a record for a stand-up comedian in peacetime." Saturday Night Live's audience jumped by a million viewers when he was on. His phrases "Well, excuuuuse me!" and "wild and crazy guys" became schoolyard mantras. Steve Martin was the comic as rock star. And then he wasn't. He stopped cold in 1981 to concentrate on movies and never went back to stand-up comedy...
Unlike Woody Allen, Martin has written only about a quarter of the films he's been in, and directed none. His movies are popular, but he's now a paternal presence, not the white-hot, wild-and-crazy guy. And that's fine. "Time has helped me achieve peace with celebrity," he writes. "At first I was not famous enough, then I was too famous and now I am famous just right...
Everyone remembers the Star Wars Kid. How could you not? His wild gesticulating with standard golfing implements transformed him into an Internet celebrity overnight and was no doubt a popular source of laughter when the video made its debut several years ago, even before the advent of YouTube. But does anyone remember his real name? Did anyone even know his real name? And did anyone ever discover how this event changed the life of the Star Wars Kid? Probably not. The Internet stripped the boy of his name, of his very identity, and the danger of losing one?...
Here we supposedly have the last stand of the last Wild West, the place and ethos that were buried in America a century ago: a celluloid fiction, reinvented with kangaroos. Australia, largest of islands or smallest of continents, does something to compensate for that loss, or so you think. In the bush, men are men and women must be grateful. And don't Australians all feel the bush at their back, amplifying their memories, shaping their values...
...farm, Redgrave Park, is a free-range facility situated near a wetlands that is a refuge for geese, ducks and other wild birds. These birds, along with some 3 million poultry on farms within 10 km of the outbreak, are currently under surveillance by vets from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Britain's farm agency...