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Michael Moore once stated that Americans are “possibly the dumbest people on the planet.” It’s no wonder his books and movies have made such a killing in Europe. A new French comedy called L’Americain (The American) satirizes a foolish young Frenchman who is convinced he wants to be American. The movie’s advertisement features an awkward looking young man posing as the stereotypical “stupid American.” This attitude is duly reflected in Britian’s Jerry Springer: The Opera?...
...unraveled, it seems irresistable. A filet of fresh salmon, seared and encrusted with fresh ground pepper, is served floating in a delicate vegetable broth brimming with bite-size chunks of carrot, celery, fennel (a popular ingredient at Salts) and tender potato balls. The combination is neither nouveu Americain nor specifically Eastern European but rather a unique invention...
...commentator on TV and want to demonstrate what a dreadful sitcom Cafe Americain is, or how sappy Barbara Walters' interviews are, or the creepiness of Michael Jackson's music videos. Could I turn on the VCR, pluck out some telling snippets, then use those clips as video "quotes" to illustrate my criticisms? No, I could not, as I discovered firsthand, again and again, in the course of producing three specials for two different networks between 1990 and 1992. Although fair use theoretically applies to television just as it does to magazines and newspapers, as a practical matter it exists intermittently...
...just fine, thank you) and adding a slew of youth-oriented sitcoms. The tactic didn't work, and this time around NBC programmers are touting two strategies for the fall: big stars and "broad-based family entertainment." Among their offerings: Valerie Bertinelli as a divorce living in Paris (Cafe Americain); a high-school coach and his family in Texas (Against the Grain); and a rotating series of mystery movies starring such TV veterans as Kenny Rogers, Larry Hagman and (reprising their early 1980s series Hart to Hart) Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers...
...will be permitted to build two casinos in Connecticut that will mix betting with moviegoing, ice skating and line dancing. And his next project in Las Vegas will envelop gambling inside a 160-acre resort that will include a golf course, intimate villages, a replica of Rick's Cafe Americain (the gambling joint from the movie Casablanca,) and a 14-acre lake where visitors can water- ski during the day and watch a laser show at night...