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Spencer Lowell UPDATE (October 14, 2012): So, the Man Fell to Earth — Does It Matter?
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Published in the August 2012 issue of Esquire
He was alone when he discovered she was gone.
His son and the other children, along with the other husbands and the other wives, were…
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In a laboratory 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, a mechanical penis sputters to life. A technician starts a timer as a stream of water erupts from the apparatus’s brass tip, arcing into a urinal mounted exactly 12 inches away. James Krug smiles. His latest back-splatter experiment is under…
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In Jim Sheridan’s 2009 film Brothers , Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire play two siblings that are opposites. Maguire’s Sam is an Army captain, a straight-laced hard worker, and a family man. Gyllenhaal’s Tommy is a fresh-out-of-jail convict, a general screw-up, and someone who doesn’t seem to care…
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