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...tell the story of left-wing activist and documentarian Michael Malone, whose disdain for his country runs so deep, he's campaigning to abolish the Fourth of July. An obvious jab at lefty filmmaker Michael Moore, Malone's character is played by Kevin Farley, brother of the late comic Chris Farley. The actor shares Moore's blocky build but not his politics: in real life, Farley is a Republican. So are the actors who play three ghosts who visit Malone to awaken his patriotism--Kelsey Grammer as George Patton, Jon Voight as George Washington and Chriss Anglin as Republicans' favorite...
...ghosts reveal to Malone the "real America," with visits to ground zero and a backyard family picnic at the home of his nephew, who is about to ship out to Iraq. And though conservatives aren't exactly known to rush the box office like comic-book fans, McEveety remains sanguine. "It's great business to service all audiences, including conservative audiences," he says. He has the experience to back up that strategy. He produced another movie the studios passed on, The Passion of the Christ, which, thanks to conservatives who showed up at cinemas in droves, became...
Absolutely. They're my homies, as you say here. Nick and I have written a screenplay together. It's a road movie that follows two comic-book geeks, starting out at Comic-Con and then moving to the Midwest, where they get into a craaazy adventure...
...Broadway) successes as Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn was labeled, patronizingly, the "British Neil Simon." But as his plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall by the Manhattan Theatre Club, most of Ayckbourn's great comedies of the past couple of decades--Man of the Moment, Henceforward, The Revengers' Comedies, Wildest Dreams--have been performed only rarely...
Batman •Obscenities printed in latest issue of comic book about...