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...King's "Treat Me Nice" at a Chicago block party. "It was unbelievable," says Tom Duff, president of the post-production company that hired him for the gig. "This guy was our governor, and he's turning up his collar and singing Elvis on our dock." In another wink to the looming charges, Blagojevich appeared onstage in June at "Rod Blagojevich Superstar," a Second City comedy production that lampooned his antics. "His one specific critique of the show was that the prop hairbrush I used was too small," says Joey Bland, the 31-year-old actor who played Blagojevich, alluding...
...about "the bro code." "It's a burlesque of the heterosexual male as done by a gay performer, which is a big element of what makes his performance so compelling," says Carter Bays, the show's co-creator. "It gives him a good entry for satire. That was the wink of his performance." Harris, however, says he isn't consciously making fun of straight dudes. "Since I'm not at all that guy, I'm trying to embody it with relish. But there's no wink, wink, nudge, nudge with it," he says...
Central to the movement is the handful of single-issue collectives Bayou and his fellow activists have founded. Take Black Thursday, which is named - in a wink to the housing crisis faced by thousands of university students and young French workers - for the day France's best-known classified real estate supplement comes out. The group stages high profile squatting campaigns of empty state- and municipal-owned buildings. Last month, for example, 10 Black Thursday squatters theatrically moved out of a disused building for handicapped students they had occupied since January. That's how long it took to get municipal...
...Obama Administration has hastened to correct the impression that Biden's comments represented a U.S. nod and wink to an Israeli air strike. The Vice President had said that while the U.S. believes that military action against Iran would serve neither American nor Israeli interests, Israel is a sovereign nation, and if it felt threatened by Iran, it would be "entitled to" launch an attack on the Islamic Republic "whether we agree or not." President Obama reiterated in Moscow on Monday that he opposes military action against Iran and instead wants a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff. But Prime...
Four years ago, when Queen Elizabeth II made Shonibare a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), his leftist friends expected him to turn the award down. Instead, he just about bolted the letters MBE to his name, but with a very broad wink. "I was always part of the empire," he says. "Now I've been officially incorporated...