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...Silverman, was behind the successful importation of The Office and Ugly Betty. Kath and Kim, though, shows that, as with Vegemite, not all flavors are so easily translated. The premise is the same as the original: single fortysomething Kath (Molly Shannon) has her life disrupted when her dim-bulb daughter Kim (Selma Blair) leaves her husband and shows up at Kath's doorstep. Like the British Absolutely Fabulous, it's a comedy of grotesques; Kath is a clueless ninny, Kim a crass, inarticulate walking...
...feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems, and while Shannon does her best with what she's given, the mother-daughter dialogue plays like bad Oscar-presenter patter...
...project where I kidnap a young boy and proceed to smack him around,” he said.References to Cera’s role as a teenage father in Juno have been reappearing in the media ever since the announcement of the pregnancy of 17-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. When asked what he thought of the situation, Cera delivered a typically inscrutable response. “Well, I had a feeling when I took the part that something like that would happen, that Sarah Palin would run and her teen would be pregnant...
...failing to display any emotional depth. For a film so concerned with what its characters like, it boggles the mind that Nick and Norah choose such awful friends. But it makes sense given how inconsistent their personalities are. Norah is desperate not to be seen as the spoiled daughter of a famous music-producer father, but she is happy to use this position to skip the line at a club. There is also no explanation as to why a band as supposedly great as Where’s Fluffy would only perform a gig at 6 a.m. and refuse...
...urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child "a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things." These days you can buy your baby daughter a BORN TO SHOP onesie with little pink purses...