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TIME: Moving on--nearly every character in this movie has a moment of either comic or tragic embarrassment...
RICHARD: It was meant to be a comic moment, that a Prime Minister would change policy because he thought he saw the President of the U.S. kissing the girl he fancies. It certainly wasn't intended as a large comment on American foreign policy...
...Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) rattles lonesomely around 10 Downing Street, mooning over his pretty tea lady (Martine McCutcheon). A trashed rocker (Bill Nighy, in a great comic turn) tries to find his old adoring audience with a ghastly Christmas song. A cuckolded writer (Colin Firth) falls in love with his housekeeper (Lucia Moniz) but can't communicate with her: she speaks only Portuguese, he only English. A shy office worker (Laura Linney) is too tongue tied and tragically preoccupied with her mentally ill brother to consummate her passion for the hunk at the neighboring computer. A recently widowed dad (Liam...
...subscribers in the next three years. "The ideal is to have one-third gay boys, one-third gay girls and one-third straight viewership," he says. Of course, gay themes aren't restricted to gay networks. Mainstream TV's attitude toward gays started growing up in 1997, when American comic Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet in her self-titled sitcom. "It was an important lesson for advertisers and producers who are naturally cautious and who saw that people weren't freaking out, they were kind of interested," says Joshua Gamson, an author and sociology professor at the University...
...long and the screen started to jerk all over itself. With the album running just over half an hour, the song’s lack of compelling elements is somewhat of a problem. Nonetheless, Kid Koala’s talent is undeniable, and the free cardboard chess set and comic book that come with the album are only icing on the cake. —Marissa R. Robillard