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...Speaking of gross, HBO's Little Britain USA (Sundays, 10:30 p.m. E.T.) is the one import this fall to retain its original cast, and it bets confidently that Yanks and redcoats alike can be united by the love of a good penis joke. Comics Matt Lucas and David Walliams transport the characters from their BBC sketch show, while adding a few American originals. But their new characters don't measure up, and the original British ones - like Lucas as thick-accented juvenile delinquent Vicky Pollard - are so culturally specific that they translate to being plopped inexplicably into American settings...
...overseas series may run a dozen or so episodes in its entire life, an American show will air 22 or more a season. So plots must be stretched out and subplots multiplied. This is not automatically bad; the American version of The Office fleshed out a stronger supporting cast, made its central character more multifaceted and found its own voice. Other adaptations find that once they run out of source material, they've got nothing...
...theaters, it's a miracle. But when Alex and Stephen Kendrick say that, they mean it literally. The Kendrick brothers, ministers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., are the writers, producers and directors of the surprise hit Fireproof. Shot on a $500,000 budget with an all-volunteer cast and donated sets and locations, their drama about a fire captain trying to rekindle his marriage made $6.8 million in its opening weekend at the box office, coming in fourth overall, between a Samuel L. Jackson thriller and a Coen brothers farce. On Oct. 10, Fireproof's distributor Samuel Goldwyn...
...marriage. In case that's too subtle an endorsement of the great marriage counselor in the sky, the father-son conversation takes place in a field beside a giant wooden cross. If the scene works for audiences, it's because everyone involved - the director, Cameron, the rest of the cast, even the church ladies who served the tuna casserole at the craft services table - sincerely believes it. "Marriage has been attacked and watered down and called a piece of paper," says Alex Kendrick. "We wanted to say, Hey, marriage is a beautiful thing and it's worth fighting...
...have any evidence that you cause the candidates to be more truthful? I think that's too much to hope for. It seems to me that our goal should be to help voters who are exposed to all this stuff sort it all out, so they can cast an intelligent vote...