Rushonomics

Paul Muni

Paul Muni was born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund on Sept. 22, 1895 in an area that was a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but is now Lviv, Ukraine. His family moved to the U.S. in 1902. He gained a reputation in the Yiddish theatres and by 1926 he was acting on Broadway. He was offered a role by Fox Pictures, and nominated for an Oscar for his first role as in The Valiant, but decided he preferred the stage and returned to Broadway until 1932.

Two of his very best are Scarface and I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Paul Muni played everybody -- Emile Zola, Benito Juarez, Louis Pasteur. We went on to win five Academy nominations, winning for Pasteur, which is probably not the best. He had contract disputes with Warner Bros., and they cut him in 1941. He made eight films in the next 10 years and retired after The Last Angry Man, which is a little schmaltzy.

Remember these are voters

Insurance accident reports

• "A pedestrian hit me and went under my car."

• "Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have."

• "No one was to blame for the accident, but it never would have happened if the other driver had been alert."

• "The pedestrian had no idea which direction to go, so I ran over him."

• "The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."

• "The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him."

• "I was on the way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident."

Things people said

More on Steele's PR strategy

We need to uptick our image with one-armed midgets and moms of all shapes.

-- GOSPer Chair Michael Steele.

American Limb-deficient Midgets Society (ALMS) and Moms of All Shapes (MAS) have joined forces to protest the lack of attention addressing their issues.

"There are too many times we have reached out our hand and been rebuffed by a heightist elite," said ALMS President Lefty O'Too who lost his arm and part of his last name in a Midgeville circus accident.

"We will never get jiggy with the Democrat Party's irresponsible binging," said MAS spokesperson Alma Pare. "It's time to eat the spinach. You should wash it twice and nuke it, but the government shouldn't have to do that for everybody."

The U.S. continues to play around with a two China policy

without thinking about the long term consequences.

Even we will not show the face of the chimp victim but Esquire will

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