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...take a guy from Brooklyn, N.Y., to make a good film about class in England? I think so. We're so neurotic about class in England that I don't think we've got the distance to make perceptive movies about it. It's taken the foreign eyes of these great directors like Woody and Robert Altman with Gosford Park and Ang Lee with Sense and Sensibility...
...remember." There will be more trouble to come. Government officials have been telling reporters that the disputed NSA wiretaps played a part in building the case that led to guilty pleas by two plotters: Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver who admitted checking out means of destroying the Brooklyn Bridge, and Mohammed Junaid Babar, a New York City man who acknowledged smuggling money and supplies to an al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan, among other things. Now Faris' attorney and dozens of other lawyers involved in some major terrorism cases are planning to file court challenges to see where the information...
...sitcom could be both good and popular. Each show had a distinctive voice: on Earl, that of a good-at-heart petty crook (Jason Lee) trying to make his life right, on Chris, the hard-edged nostalgia of narrator Chris Rock, looking back on his childhood in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. They share another, less fortunate attribute: neither show has developed its characters much beyond their hilarious but cartoony pilots, and if they had, they'd be higher on this list. But after years in which sitcoms have been either bad or cancelled, I'll take my laughs however...
Move-in day inspires many a colorful conversation among newly acquainted parents. My mother’s comments about her arranged marriage to my father received quite a look of shock from my roommate’s mother—a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who agonized over “the perfect man” until she met her husband shortly before her 30th birthday. It was on that fated move-in day that my mother commented somewhat whimsically about how she met and married my father: “I wasn’t scared to marry...
...only do old-school duo and fellow TV fans 3rd Bass sample dialogue from comedian Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd’s Saturday Night Live routine “Wild And Crazy Guys” on their song “Brooklyn-Queens,” but their peers in EPMD have a whole song called “The Steve Martin,” all about his funky dance in “The Jerk.” Talk about an unlikely hip-hop icon...