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...Carlin is not smart or funny, just outrageous for the sake of outrageousness. He wants to be known as edgy but is still coasting on his tired 30-year-old Seven Dirty Words routine. Even the title of his book, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, which Carlin says will offend three religious groups at once, is no more original than the old bumper sticker NUKE THE GAY WHALES FOR JESUS. STEVE GORMAN Redmond...
Thank you for the interview with comedian and actor George Carlin [March 29]. The man continues to evolve as he delights and offends everyone, everywhere, equally, reminding us all to lighten up. I consider myself a good, spiritual person, but I could no longer stomach the hypocrisy I found in many organized church services. If Carlin ever became an evangelist, I would definitely join his flock. MARY HARRINGTON Fayetteville...
...childbirth less than 15 minutes into the movie, and Trinke is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference...
Tyler is casually convincing as Smith’s archetypal love interest, the intelligent but laid-back super-babe whose sex appeal and sarcastic wit are mutually reinforcing. Carlin repeatedly saves the day in scenes that might have devolved into very un-Smith-like saccharine and cliché, even rescuing a will-daddy-come-to-the-school-play? scene that would have sunk just about any other movie...
...CENTER OF A FAMOUS OBSCENITY CASE OVER HIS comedy routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." At age 66, George Carlin is still provoking audiences with his stand-up material, watching a new battle over broadcast indecency unfold and co-starring in a movie, Jersey Girl. He talked, seriously, with TIME's Richard Zoglin...