Mad Max not so Mad anymore

Mad Max, who made a career in the early nineteen-eighties out of his reputation for madness, has mellowed out. In an exclusive sit-down interview with Diane Sawyer, Max tells the world how things have changed for him since he walked away from the Thunderdrome back in nineteen eighty-five.

"Well, first of all, I don't go by 'Mad Max' anymore," Max told Sawyer. "I changed my name to 'Happy, Contented, and Getting Better Every Day Max'. But most folks just call me 'Happy Max'. Anyway, after years of anger-management counseling and deep-digging psychotherapy, I've come to find that I'm really a pretty laid-back guy, underneath that tough, leathery exterior that I used to have. I mean, what was I so mad about? It was just a little gasoline. And all of that 'two men enter, one man leave' business--why, it's just silly. It's not even gramatically accurate. Has anyone in the Thunderdrome ever heard of subject-verb agreement? But, that's water under the bridge. I'm a new man now. 'Happy Max', that's me. And, man, do I ever bore the sweet fancy tarnation out of myself."