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...from the American Midwest sit at a table in a pizza joint downrange with a heavily made-up, platinum blonde Russian in a tight T shirt and pants. She sips mango juice and says nothing. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, the men swig Budweisers from the bottle and joke with each other. They do not want to give their names. "Just chillin' out," says one, his brown hair cropped on the sides and brush-cut short on top. He likes the Army, he says, though he can't wait to get home to see his young daughter...
...right, the bit is a joke, a trompe l'oeil of forced perspective. But it's one of dozens, a veritable sluice, of gags about penis size, urine, excrement and farts. In silhouette, Austin appears to gratify himself in nearly impossible ways. Fat Bastard, the studiously repellent Myers character whose very image is an affront to this hallowed page, expels something into his shorts, then muses on whether it's solid, liquid or gas. The film's title says its wit is in its groin. Laugh or groan at Goldmember--and Myers wants you to do both...
Like the "Easter eggs" (hidden extras) in DVDs, cameos are a cute freebie for viewers--an inside joke even outsiders can get. And stars enjoy spending a day or two working for scale and promoting themselves as good sports. Sometimes, a bit of deception is required. Says Soderbergh of his quest to land Pitt and Fincher: "I used each of them to get the other. I told Brad David was doing it; I told David Brad was doing...
...raid on the home of pro-independence leader Manuel Carrascalao's in April 1999. One witness recounts seeing a friend killed, before being shot and stabbed himself; Guterres yawns. Another claims to have helped dispose of the bodies of the 11 people killed that day; Guterres smiles at a joke from one of his six lawyers. A third says he was forcibly conscripted into Guterres' militia under fear of death. The defendant taps his foot and glances around the room. Guterres was videotaped before the raid calling for the destruction of the Carrascalao family and the death of pro-independence...
...He’d joke and calm down any random freshman freak-outs you might have had about academics,” wrote Robert A. Hodgson ’05 in an e-mail. “He was just a truly nice guy to have on your side for the rest of the year...