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David Gordon Green's debut film, George Washington, was a painterly group portrait of preteen anguish. Now that America's most gifted young auteur is 27, he's graduated to kids in their late teens and early 20s but with the same desperate, comic, always human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just...
...DIED. ALBERTO SORDI, 82, legendary comic actor who personified the postwar Italian male, with all his vices and virtues, during a career that spanned more than 50 years; in Rome. Known to Italians as "Big Alberto," Sordi often played an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. He appeared in more than 160 films, although he is best known internationally for his role in the 1965 adventure-comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...
...comic strips and radio serials shaped children of earlier generations, so television shows formed the children of the 1980s. Ours is a generation that can sing the opening strains of the Sesame Street theme song, a generation that read along with Lavar Burton and a generation that can name the majority of the Muppets. Because ours is a generation of children reared on television, college students felt a personal sense of loss on learning last week that Mister Rogers, the television neighbor of our childhood, had died of stomach cancer...
...Houghton collection includes Borges-themed comic books and records, and even a t-shirt featuring a caricature of the elderly writer...
...stand-up comic, Valdez used to joke about the dearth of English-language TV shows that feature Latinos. At 46, he fights for these shows--and wins. He co-founded Si TV to produce them, and its show The Brothers Garcia, a comedy based partly on Valdez's childhood with nine siblings in Colorado, is a hit for Nickelodeon. This summer EchoStar will distribute the new Si TV network, the first English-language channel for Latinos, to U.S. cable and satellite customers...