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...there's a curse on Norton, it is his unease at fame. "He's not comfortable with being famous," says Stuart Blumberg, his Yale buddy who wrote Keeping the Faith. "He hasn't mastered the art of being a fake celebrity. But to his friends, Edward's the quintessentially normal guy. He's funniest when he's just being a nerdy goofball...
...track, and the response is swift. "It's horrible!" How about American rabble-rousers like shock jock Howard Stern? "He's one joke that's already tired." Post-punk diva Courtney Love? "Courtney Loves Kurt's money." Don't count on Lydon's accepting any Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honors either. "Never. I don't need accolades from boring old farts." Thankfully, Lydon remains rotten to the core...
GEEK GRUB Already a cult figure among geeks for his Dilbert comic strip about office life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...
...confesses, uttering the immortal lines, "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!" Imagine a similar scene. On the stand is Samuel L. Jackson portraying Col. Terry Childers. The fresh-out-of-law school idealistic and handsome prosecutor who replaces Tom Cruise is Guy Pearce of L.A.Confidential fame. Don't ask what accent this Australian is trying to imitate. Jackson's confession goes more like this: "Yes. Innocent people probably died." He stands up and yells it for emphasis...
...When asked what he thought of this situation in retrospect, he simply said that "I just hope this isn't my fifteen minutes of fame." As for his diabolical laugh, he simply remarks, "I'm working...