Jean-Claude Van Damme did a Q&A with Newsweek’s Sarah Ball.

Sadly, at the end of the interview he stops answering questions about his new film “JCVD” and starts hitting on her instead!

Van Damme, 48, is currently married to his fifth wife, according to reports.

See the transcript below with the Newsweek reporter’s comment in bold type:

I really opened myself up in “JCVD.” I peeled back the skin of the fruit, cut the pulp and then took that very hard seed. In this film I cut that hard seed, and inside that seed was a kind of liquid cream substance of the man I am, or the woman you are.

OK –
It was like being naked–I would love to be naked in front of you.

Well, I –
Not being naked being naked. I say such things in Hong Kong and they thought I was being a crazy Frenchman. Being naked of protection.

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The big newsweeklies and business titles have been periodically downsizing for years — closing foreign bureaus, shedding layers of reporters and researchers, buying out the oldest and priciest editors, reports Portfolio.

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TIME (right) and Newsweek, which both rushed election specials onto newsstands early, say the issues are already selling out in the major metropolitan markets. (NY Post)

Anne Kornblut, who covered the presidential election for The Washington Post will write a book called Rejection: Why America Isn’t Ready for A Woman President. (NYO)

Playboy and Primedia both reported financial declines through the first nine months of the year. (Folio)

Facebook and MySpace: It’s War! (Guardian)

NBC News’ DC bureau yesterday made a renewed plea to staffers to take the network’s buyout package. (Fishbowl)

American Media Inc.’s longtime financial backers are finally ready to take a financial bath and hand over control of the company to the bondholders. (NY Post)

Former Time Inc. Exec Robin Domeniconi to Lead Microsoft U.S Ad Sales. (AdAge)

Craigslist agreed to crack down on advertisement sposted by prostitutes. (Reuters)

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Barack Obama is up 11 points on John McCain among likely voters in the new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll, 54 to 43 percent.

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The editors at Newsweek had a sunny outlook - and today it looks like they delivered the perfect cover.

Today, the Dow soared over 950 points - the largest single day gain EVER.

New moves by governments to shore up the global financial system sparked the rally today end what was a brutal losing streak for the market, reports the WSJ.

Which is your favorite?  Which one do you hate?  Leave your thoughts in the comments section!

Us Weekly

TIME

People

National Enquirer

Newsweek

Alaska Magazine

Anchorage Daily News

NY Daily News: Pitbull Cover

NY Daily News: The Very Odd Couple

NY Post: Knock Out Cover

NY Post: McCain’s VP Pick

Newsday: Her Big Night

Newsday: McCain’s Surprise Pick

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While President Bush continues to be the least popular President in United States’ history, Newsweek presents its special summer double issue titled “What Bush Got Right.”

(Hmm.  This won’t be a big seller.)

According to the magazine, the administration “has deftly managed a critical relationship with China, and deepened one with India.”

While this is one of Bush’s few successes in office, the magazine points out why this administration has been such a catastrophic failure.

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For those of you who watched Morning Joe or for those of you that missed Newsweek’s cover story on “The End of the South” and what it means for the election, click here.

The Olympics are starting next week.

And Newssweek provides an indepth article on China and what it calls “the roots of a national inferiority complex.”

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