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...money. MacFarlane provides the voices for both Peter Griffin, the loveable, overweight father-figure in the older series, and Stan Smith, the paranoid, flag-wavingly patriotic father (and, again, the inspiration for the show’s name) in “American Dad,” as well as a number of major supporting characters in both shows...
Although “Family Guy” often features political comedy, it is part of a larger pop-culture-parody whole. “American Dad,” on the other hand, is firmly centered on modern politics. “This is a much more polarized political climate, and so it seemed like the right time to do a show like this,” says MacFarlane, likening the political atmosphere to the 1970s frustrations that birthed to “All in the Family...
...Horovitz is the first to say that the undergraduates running the festival are not to blame. “They put on a really good event,” he says. “My dad is a screenwriter and he was there and told me this kind of thing happens all the time, even at the Cannes Film Festival...
...short, a grownup is a creature very much resembling Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman), whose patient efforts to gain the respect of his son Chris (Matt Dillon) elicit nothing more than a succession of shrugs and silences. What can Dad possibly know about the soul of a lad who wants to be a race-car driver...
...Maurice Salha, who came to Australia from Lebanon 40 years ago, imports homewares from China, supplying the Mum-and-Dad discount stores some people call "$2 stores" or "junk shops." On a Monday morning in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, his warehouses are abuzz as workers unload newly arrived shipping containers Since the early '70s, Salha has been buying goods in Asia, watching the focus shift from Hong Kong to Japan to Korea to Taiwan and now to mainland China. When he first went to Guangzhou in 1974, it took him four hours to see all the merchandise...