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'Role Models' loses energy halfway through
The secret to the crowd-pleasing potential of Role Models is that director David Wain cleverly tucks G-rated comedy into an R-rated wrapper. Like Zach and Miri Make a Porno but with infinitely better dialogue and pacing and an authentic feel for...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Ben Affleck, Movies, Judd Apatow
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Imagine 'Idol' meets Bollywood
Chicago Tribune reporterWhat would you get if you crossed "American Idol" with a Bollywood movie and a Christopher Guest spoof such as "Best in Show"? Probably something a lot like the new comedy "Loins of Punjab," a low-budget effort that sends up everything from reality TV...Tags: Shabana Azmi, New Jersey, Television, American Idol (tv program), Popular Music
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Sturges' tours de farce trounce Coen brothers' stabs at madcap comedy
Sun Movie CriticThe Coen brothers are fabulously talented filmmakers, but for my money, they come a cropper whenever they veer into the crazy- or extreme-comedy territory of Preston Sturges. Movies like Intolerable Cruelty and today's premiere, Burn After Reading,...Tags: Barry Levinson, Swing Vote (movie), Kevin Costner, Cinema Industry, Pixar
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Honda rolls out new zero-emission car
Associated Press WriterHonda's new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to Southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green motoring. The FCX Clarity, which runs on hydrogen and...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Redondo Beach, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), General Motors Corp., California
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Madonna: A little help for the political girl
A little help for the political girl Life is a mystery. Madonna not so much. Everyone was expecting some sort of controversy as she launched her "Sticky and Sweet" tour in Wales last week. It was just a matter of finding out what it would be. This...Tags: Elton John, Theater, Marriage, Barack Obama, Adolf Hitler
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Honda releases the zero-emission FCX Clarity
++++++++++++++++++++ || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Honda's new zero-emission, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese production line Monday and is headed to southern California, where Hollywood is already abuzz over the latest splash in green...Tags: Santa Monica, Television, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Automotive Equipment, California
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Sunday Conversation: Steve Coogan
Special to The TimesENGLISH comedian Steve Coogan stars in " Hamlet 2," a romp about a deranged high school drama teacher and his disaffected Latino students in Tucson, to be released Aug. 27. He also appears in Ben Stiller's " Tropic Thunder." He has starred in "Tristram...Tags: Hamlet 2 (movie), Tropic Thunder (movie), Ben Stiller, Michael Winterbottom, Literature
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Sunday Conversation: Margaret Cho
Special to The TimesCOMEDIAN Margaret Cho is back on TV. Her slightly scripted reality program "The Cho Show," costarring her parents and pals, premiered Thursday on VH1 and runs for seven episodes. P.S. She thinks it'll be back for a second season. How's New York...Tags: Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Barack Obama, Television, Selena
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Release of the Week: 'Pete Seeger: The Power of Song'
Courant Staff WriterWhat a terrific movie. It's not just a biography of a remarkable man, but a history of 20th-century American progressive politics. From the late '30s until today, Pete Seeger was there, in the forefront, working to do what he thought was the right thing....Tags: Music, Folk Music, Pete Seeger, Adolf Hitler, Jim Brown
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Review: 'The 39 Steps'
linda.winer@newsday.comThe tall, tweedy Englishman with the pencil mustache is bored - no, positively world weary - from a life of restaurants and parties and, ho-hum, in the far distance, another rumor of war. He considers doing away with himself, but stiffens his standard-...Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Theater, Police, American Airlines, Inc., Robert Donat
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Masters of the replay
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNEEach year there are dozens of movies that disappear from theaters nearly as quickly as they arrive. Of those, only a lucky few gain new life at midnight screenings and on video as cult films. Joel and Ethan Coen, the duo behind the Oscar best picture "No...Tags: Rob Reiner, Mike Judge, Jane Fonda, Bruce Campbell, Tod Browning
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'Back to You' a good fit for comedy veteran Willard
The Philadelphia InquirerIf the role of Marsh McGinley, a blithe and blithering sportscaster on "Back to You's" fictitious WURG-TV nightly news team, seems tailor-made for Fred Willard, well, it is. Not just because the Wednesday-night Fox sitcom's co-creator, Steve Levitan,...Tags: Philadelphia Phillies, Television, Major League Baseball, Baseball, Babe Ruth
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