MAKING HIS MOCK

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: August 29, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

NEW YORK Monty Sarhan can dish it out, but he can't take it.

The 33-year-old Braintree native has been working day and night to relaunch the venerable humor magazine Cracked, but for some reason he is obsessing about a wire service dispatch that called him "pudgy." "I don't think I'm pudgy," are his first words to a visiting reporter. "Please don't put that in your story. I'm not pudgy."

This from a man whose first issue features a Photo Shopped cover picture of Tom Cruise, mocking the "44-Year-Old Virgin." From a man who ran a feature titled "Vehicular Homicide Is the New Black," illustrated ...

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