Word: madison
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...From D.C. to Dixie, it's the same vocabulary of ominous synthesizer music, phony-sounding testimonials, graphics worthy of public-access cable and canned punch lines ("Wrong for the court. Wrong for our kids"). It wasn't always so. The 1964 Daisy ad was practically avant-garde. Today, while Madison Avenue produces some of the most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply for doing a couple of funny parodies of MasterCard and Monster.com spots. Both appealed smartly to voter cynicism about the major parties...
...count in those days.) That can get to be a problem. One king is simple; 100 million kings is chaotic. Let every voice be heard is the rule in democracy, but it makes for cacophony, not harmony. "Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention," said James Madison, who helped create ours...
...Sandler, of course, exploded to fame in the '90s after the successive hits of Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Wedding Singer. With the blockbuster performances in The Waterboy and Big Daddy, he confirmed his position as one of the biggest box-office draws in the world. At the same time, his films are clearly critic-proof; Sandler doesn't care what's written about him as long as audiences keeps laughing...
...then I was like, "I don't care." I've only gotten bad reviews from them-I'm not gonna be like, "Ooooh. I finally got 'em." I'm more like, "Fuck you. I don't give a fuck." In the beginning I did, when I did Billy Madison, but now I realize I didn't get into this business to have a critic like me. I got into it to get people to laugh. As a kid, I went to the movies to laugh my ass off, to hang out with my friends, to go on a date...
...take Billy Madison. It was the first one, it was the one that got my own vision out there. It was my mother's favorite one. You know what, though - I'd like to hang out with Bobby Buscet (the character's name in The Waterboy). I'd let Bobby his head on my lap and sleep...