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...following year, the FCC reversed this ruling and condemned Bono’s speech as indecent and profane, but issued no fine to the network. The FCC’s flip-flop was almost certainly attributable to Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson’s unforgettable half-time show performance during the 2004 Super Bowl...
...television, it already has. American Idol, beneath the contestants' naked ambition and buckets of flop-sweat, and Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been...
Overall, I’d say that “Game 6” is quite a step up since Keaton’s horrific turns in the Lindsay Lohan vehicle “Herbie Fully Loaded” and the Katie Holmes flop “First Daughter.” At least he’s making an effort to restore his career to the prominence of his Tim Burton days, and rise from the ashes of Disney spin-offs and chick-flicks...
...comedy. The audience received his jokes indulgently but not warmly. He wasn?t David Letterman (another TV outsider who bombed as an Oscar host in 1995), but he wasn?t Steve Martin or Billy Crystal. There were moments when the usually unflappable Stewart, gauging the tepid response, made the flop-sweat asides of a bombing standup comic. (?Work with me.? ?I?m a loser.?) And part of his problem was that he was working against the prejudices of the room rather than toadying to them...
...Fade to Black.”In pulling off such an absorbing documentary as his follow-up to “Eternal Sunshine,” Gondry shows himself to be one of today’s most successful and interesting directors, completely erasing the memory of his initial flop “Human Nature.” The most meaningful illustration of Gondry’s talent, however, is that he can be as compulisvely watchable without using the surreal illustrations that made “Eternal Sunshine” seem so fresh.The key to understanding Gondry?...