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...Americans have never been averse to mindless entertainment, but has there ever been a better time for a bit of farcical fluff? The economy's shaky, we may be headed off to war in Iraq, and as we near the one-year anniversary of September 11, we are all being forced (either by our own actual experiences or by an omnipresent media campaign) to revisit the pain and horror of that day. We could all use a break. The executives at Fox were lucky enough to have hit on the perfect programming to capitalize on our emotional exhaustion, providing...
...Ideal Husband for Miramax in 1999, reunites on Earnest with Husband’s Rupert Everett, teaming him this time with Reese Witherspoon, Dame Judi Dench and Colin Firth. Despite the film’s cumulative pedigree, its promotional footage looks weak; the movie should be early summer fluff...
...Although her heart is in the right place, her radical, anti-establishment language may put off the very audience she seeks to affect. Meanwhile, McCarthy, one of the world’s leading experts on climate change, addresses global warming in his advice. Rather than preach fluff, he gives solid evidencae of its far-reaching effects and convincingly argues for our capacity for action...
...show attracted the attention of Sony Music, which gave the band a three-album deal; the first, Meteor Rain, was released late last year. It was pop-fluff stuff, a sonic fusion of Japanese groups SMAP and Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...
...champion of those Broadway belters. "If ever there was a time when people needed to laugh and relax, its now," he insists. "The Producers provides some balance to today's tensions. It's wonderfully offensive to all creeds!" He bristles at the suggestion that musicals are all fluff. "Not merely escapism. Escapism is vital." And contemporary relevances are there if you look for them, he says. The Producers, after all, is about the corrupting of an accountant, a very modern theme in this post-Enron...