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Michael Powers - 2005-11-11 14:27:32
Speaking of comedians (if not lemurs), Sarah Silverman's new concert/sketch movie, "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic" opens today. I've seen Silverman live many times and she's by far the funniest and most intriguing comedienne ever to climb onto a stage. A couple of her less viscerally offensive lines: "Is it molestation if the baby makes the first move?" Or "When God gives you AIDS, make lemonAIDS." She was the woman lounging on the couch toward the end of "The Aristocrats" with the story about being serially raped as a little girl. This film will probably zip through theatres in a flash then eventually become a major cultural milestone in a DVD afterlife, so I wanted to give you a heads up.
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Baby Party - 2005-11-11 15:51:29
Too bad about Arrested Development, but at least the execrable Seventh Heaven got the axe as well. Not that I've ever actually watched it, or would know that the character of Lucy is a screeching, selfish harpy. No, I don't know anything about that.
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LG - 2005-11-11 17:48:09
S. S. was the new hot juicy all the rage when I worked at the rhymes with Funion. She's even more offensive at the after-party. Kind of odd for a woman who also special-guested on a 2-part episode of Star Trek voyager. The crassness I mean. She also shares my mother's maiden name.
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Dave - 2005-11-11 18:03:42
Isn't it about time people just started making TV series and not bothering to put them on TV in the first place? I love Arrested Development and I've never seen it on television, only the DVD releases. And with video downloads available over the web why bother trying to make a TV show for an industry that cuts it up with commercials and only cares about who's advertising during your show? Has anyone tried doing a subscription or download only series? I think Arrested Development would do pretty well in that format. I'd buy it, in fact, I did buy it. I bought season 2 on DVD recently.
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Bob - 2005-11-12 02:31:40
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Reese Witherspoon looks more like Johnny Cash than Joaquin Phoenix does?
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Michael - 2005-11-12 11:57:14
I find "Arrested Development" watchable, and admire some of the people involved with it very much, but it always gave me the strong feeling that something was fundamentally wrong, that what we were seeing were essentially excerpts and snippets from what should be a much longer and more complete show. Last year I was bemused to read in an interview with one of the producers (I forget exactly who) that this was precisely the case, that much, much more is written and even filmed, and that this is pared down past the bone all the way to the gelatinous marrow for broadcast, giving the show a disjointed feeling of kind of hitting the high spots that I always found extremely off-putting myself (although it's still worlds better than most of what unfortunately passes for television these days). My own favorite current network shows, bizarrely enough, are "The Gilmore Girls" (surreally well-written, believe it or not), "House" (Golden Age classic television actually happening in the 21st century), and, to a lesser degree, "Desperate Housewives" (at least the first season, for its real unpredictability if nothing else). I haven't seen any television at all this season, since I wisely threw out my TV during the summer and have no plans to replace it in the foreseeable future--I don't want one of those things vomiting its bilge into my home any more. As for Dave's comment about making series strictly for DVD and subscription, I think that's a brilliant idea that somehow never occurred to me before.
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Paula - 2005-11-13 11:26:59
Yeah, I third the TV-show as subscription idea--not so different from reading comic books.
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