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...supporting player in Julia Louis-Dreyfus' short-lived sitcom Watching Ellie, then he was upstaging Jim Carrey as the guy who spoke in tongues in Bruce Almighty and Ferrell as the weatherman in Anchorman. On March 24, he will play the lead in NBC's remake of the beloved BBC sitcom The Office. There's also a Woody Allen movie, a Nicole Kidman movie and Virgin, which he co-wrote. And he has been cast as the lead in a film version of Get Smart, despite the fact that the spy-spoof remake doesn't have a director, a script...
...order to avoid copying Gervais' character, Carell has not watched the BBC show. "I don't even get to see The Daily Show anymore. I'm in bed by 10. I hear it's still very good," says Carell, who has two young children with his wife, fellow Daily Show and Second City alumnus Nancy Walls. "In the year and a half since I left, it's gone through the roof and won all kinds of accolades. I guess they needed to get rid of some dead weight." But while other Daily Show correspondents have been able to create amusing...
...should not be subsidized. But the big picture remains fuzzy. State funding is still OK, said Kroes, as long as it is "necessary to fulfill a task in the public interest." To determine that, Kroes demanded more detail on how all three governments fund their channels. How do the BBC's far-reaching online services stay off the hook? The Beeb quietly dumped its more commercial sites last year, and the British government's restructuring plan for the BBC, published last week, waxed lyrical on "transparency." "It's a judgement call," says Nicholas Francis of competitive market watchers Reckon. "BBC...
Here are a couple of examples. The friend of mine who just came back from Tanzania wrote in an e-mail that “…being stuck in a box with nothing but the BBC makes for a postmodern haven that is, at moments, unfulfilling. I fear I’ve also come to the realization that Cambridge, Mass. is a better place to study Africa than the continent itself, unless one really knows what s/he is doing. I’m afraid I feel guilty enough about receiving school credit for the classes I took this...
...events put together by the OFA this semester in a series whose other guests will include turntablist DJ Spooky and playwright Tony Kushner. Slatkin has enjoyed abundant critical praise in the last two decades as a premiere conductor, with successful tenures at both the St. Louis Symphony and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He has been with the National Symphony Orchestra for nine years, and in that time has been crowned with the country’s National Medal of the Arts and a Grammy award for Best Classical Recording...