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...plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable attempt at exposing the life and culture of this otherworldly place. However, a vexing question hangs over the book: does it illuminate or perpetuate the stereotyped "Oriental" image Americans have of Asia, and North Korea in particular...
...Ultimate Fighter was our Trojan horse," says White. Like WWE's comic-book rivalries, the reality show created competitors whose aspirations and heartbreaks have hooked fight fans. When the first live fight on Spike this season matched a bunch of contenders from the first series in combat, the show outdrew ESPN's NFL preseason and X Games telecasts in the target demographic of men ages 18 to 49. The premiere of this season's reality show drew more than 2 million late-night viewers. The next three episodes logged increases in the number of men watching. "It's the right...
...keep alive the memory of the entire wiped-out village by hoarding its detritus. There is, as it turns out, one other survivor, whose identity should probably not be revealed here. Alas, the tragic dimensions of Everything Is Illuminated do not quite reach the originality and intensity of its comic passages. There is something conventional, not quite emotionally realized, in its evocation of the Holocaust. Perhaps the first thing people said about the Holocaust--that its horrors were beyond the range of art to fully comprehend--may be the truest...
...Cosby question--he's heard it before. Chris Rock knows his history well enough to know the parallel: in 1984 a black comic turned his stand-up act into a fresh-voiced family comedy that revived the sitcom genre when, like now, pundits were reading it the last rites. But suggest that UPN's Everybody Hates Chris, which Rock created and narrates, could be today's Great Black Hope, and the comic waxes unphilosophical. "If it's good, it'll work. If not, it won't work." Shrug. Silence. Move...
...provocative title. So the actor and filmmaker who renamed himself ALBERT BROOKS can't be surprised that his next project is raising some eyebrows even before it's finished. In Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, which Brooks wrote and is directing, the Broadcast News funnyman plays a comic sent abroad by the U.S. State Department to discover what makes Muslims laugh. Sony Pictures Entertainment passed on distributing the comedy, fearing the title was insensitive, and Brooks fans are debating its offensiveness online. Brooks is keeping mum about the film, due out next year from Warner Independent Pictures. What...