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...where did the idea for the Razzies come from? Wilson blames attempting to host an Oscars party while living in the Pacific Time Zone. "The Oscars come on at five and are over some time around nine, and when you have that many people over, you have to have something to do, so I set up a cardboard podium and invited people to offer up nominees for the worst film of the year." The first Razzie statues were sculpted pieces of foam, and the inaugural Worst Picture award went to Allan Carr's Can't Stop the Music, a musical...
...from being the last resort of the desperate and talentless to something more like out-of-town tryouts for theater or the farm system in baseball. It's the last ripple of the Web 2.0 vibe finally washing up on publishing's remote shores. After YouTube and Wikipedia, the idea of user-generated content just isn't that freaky anymore...
Still, I took a deep breath and told Faulk about a scrappy, overachieving journalist who was given three days to put together a cover story about George Clooney - a man who had been covered in every way, from every possible angle. Every idea that the journalist came up with - like a poker game with Clooney's friends - the actor shot down. So this journalist took a risk that no other celebrity profiler had ever taken: he invited Clooney over to his house for dinner. And the journalist cooked and cooked, and maybe the rack of lamb he undercooked...
...sure, Obama as Messiah is not a new idea. His biggest champions as well as his fiercest critics have been encouraging the comparison since the early days of the primaries. The sentiment even reached beyond America’s borders—he was deemed “Der Weltpräsident” (the world president) by Der Spiegel, the German weekly news magazine—and if anything the Obama as Messiah image has only become more prevalent in the months since his election. He now enjoys an 83 percent approval rating, 22 and 15 percentage points higher...
...remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness...