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The man behind Queer as Folk and the resurrection of Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies, is returning to the drama genre with a trio of new projects coming to Channel 4: Cucumber (Channel 4), Banana (E4), and a web series called Tofu. The new series are set to explore modern gay life in the way
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The man behind Queer as Folk and the resurrection of Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies, is returning to the drama genre with a trio of new projects coming to Channel 4: Cucumber (Channel 4), Banana (E4), and a web series called Tofu. The new series are set to explore modern gay life in the way
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- 11/22/2013
- by Nick Kitchen
- Kasterborous.com
Anna Chlumsky's family roots extend to Moe, Larry, Curly and Frankenstein.
Chlumsky, who plays Amy, chief of staff to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Vice President Selina Meyer, on HBO's Sunday comedy "Veep," had a great-grandfather who was in vaudeville.
"He opened for the Stooges, and he had a trained bear," Chlumsky tells Zap2it. "Vaudeville ended, and all these guys had to get other jobs, so my great-grandfather was -- I think he was a cop. At that point he told my grandmother that she couldn't have a prom dress, and she was very sad. And he wrote Mae Clarke, whom he had known, and asked, 'What do I do?' And she sent him -- sometimes the story is she sent him the trunk, sometimes that she sent him the dress -- the story changes depending on the holiday."
Still, it's a great story that your grandmother's prom dress was in "Frankenstein.
Chlumsky, who plays Amy, chief of staff to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Vice President Selina Meyer, on HBO's Sunday comedy "Veep," had a great-grandfather who was in vaudeville.
"He opened for the Stooges, and he had a trained bear," Chlumsky tells Zap2it. "Vaudeville ended, and all these guys had to get other jobs, so my great-grandfather was -- I think he was a cop. At that point he told my grandmother that she couldn't have a prom dress, and she was very sad. And he wrote Mae Clarke, whom he had known, and asked, 'What do I do?' And she sent him -- sometimes the story is she sent him the trunk, sometimes that she sent him the dress -- the story changes depending on the holiday."
Still, it's a great story that your grandmother's prom dress was in "Frankenstein.
- 4/29/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
"Yoshimitsu Morita, whose films depicted the absurdity and vulnerability of everyday life in conformist Japan, has died," reports Yuri Kagayama for the AP. "He was 61." His breakthrough came with The Family Game (1983), winner of five Kinema Junpo Awards — Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Actor (Yusaku Matsuda) and Supporting Actor (Jûzô Itami) — in which Matsuda plays "an offbeat tutor who forms a heartwarming relationship with a young man in a stereotypical middle-class family."
"Though even its most perceptive commentators reduce Kazoku geimu (Family Game) to a critique of 'affluent, middle-class nuclear family life in the city and nose-to-the-grindstone education systems' [Keiko McDonald in 1989], Morita's most widely known film is before all else hilarious," wrote Bob Davis in Senses of Cinema in 2006. "Its laughs derive from inappropriate and idiosyncratic behavior, unseemly frankness, slapstick antics, gross-out tactics, repetitions, exaggerations, explosive contrasts, and unnatural pacing." In Davis's "brazen 'ranking' of Morita's films, Family Game, Deaths in Tokimeki, Sorekara [And Then], Keiho,...
"Though even its most perceptive commentators reduce Kazoku geimu (Family Game) to a critique of 'affluent, middle-class nuclear family life in the city and nose-to-the-grindstone education systems' [Keiko McDonald in 1989], Morita's most widely known film is before all else hilarious," wrote Bob Davis in Senses of Cinema in 2006. "Its laughs derive from inappropriate and idiosyncratic behavior, unseemly frankness, slapstick antics, gross-out tactics, repetitions, exaggerations, explosive contrasts, and unnatural pacing." In Davis's "brazen 'ranking' of Morita's films, Family Game, Deaths in Tokimeki, Sorekara [And Then], Keiho,...
- 12/23/2011
- MUBI
Celebrities seem intent on becoming lifestyle gurus. But how easy is it to follow the rules?
You are a celebrity. The world, you are led to believe, is fascinated by your every movement: what you eat (do you eat?), where you hang out, who you know. You spend much of your time detailing all of the above to interviewers – so why don't you lecture the peasants directly how to live their lives? Welcome to the age of the celebrity lifestyle guru, in which any celebrity with a fondness for shopping can start a website and tell fans how they (if they're lucky!) can be more like them.
Oprah Winfrey: oprah.com
Makeup advice, fashion tips and joyless food for 'guilt-free' living
I start the day with a bowl of "high energy (and guilt-free!) cereal", which is a revelation, as I never thought of cereal as being particularly guilt-inducing. But...
You are a celebrity. The world, you are led to believe, is fascinated by your every movement: what you eat (do you eat?), where you hang out, who you know. You spend much of your time detailing all of the above to interviewers – so why don't you lecture the peasants directly how to live their lives? Welcome to the age of the celebrity lifestyle guru, in which any celebrity with a fondness for shopping can start a website and tell fans how they (if they're lucky!) can be more like them.
Oprah Winfrey: oprah.com
Makeup advice, fashion tips and joyless food for 'guilt-free' living
I start the day with a bowl of "high energy (and guilt-free!) cereal", which is a revelation, as I never thought of cereal as being particularly guilt-inducing. But...
- 5/3/2011
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
Eons ago, the world was covered in darkness. God had not yet created heaven. Mad Doctor Gordo had not yet created hell. George Washington was still carving America out of Pangaea, using his all-powerful hammer and sickle. Into this shapeless void came a Talking Demon from beyond the beyondest beyond. This demon annoyed the crap out of everyone. No matter how hard you tried, you just could not shut it up. The citizens of Earth (mostly vampires and robo-dinosaurs – this was about 5 million Bce, long before the dawn of man) banded together to imprison this utterly annoying Talking Demon in the Negative Zone.
- 7/21/2010
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
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