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This glut of advertising is not necessarily bad: Advertising can be quite beautiful, and is often much more innovative and funnier than the programs between which it is sandwiched. Ads for the Super Bowl and now for the Oscars have become premier events unto themselves and at times overshadow the presumed draw of football or movie stars. In 10 years, the top awards show is likely to be the Clio, the award for achievements in advertising. In some ways the Oscars are already as self-serving: We do buy the idea that movie people, renamed the "Academy," can vote...
...site, iFilm can boast at least one breakthrough. Dave Garrett and Jason Ward made the nine-minute "comedy" Sunday's Game, in which five old ladies gather around a bridge table and gab about their infirmities while passing around a gun in a game of Russian roulette that gets funnier and funnier as the blood stains more and more of the tablecloth. Last month they got a TV development deal from Fox. This is what happens when you people refuse to watch that half-hour version of Ally McBeal...
Still, Duehay's career was marked by his pragmatic approach--and some funnier moments...
Passed on by broadcast networks before landing at HBO, The Sopranos is a show so good it gives TV a bad image, funnier than most sitcoms ("It'd be like What Ever Happened to Baby Janice? over there," Tony says when Pavarti/Janice offers to care for Livia) and far deeper and more complex than most "quality" dramas. And yet its greatest indictment of TV may be that there is nothing unique about the people who make the show. Chase, 50, is no wunderkind; he kicked around TV for decades, doing fine but hardly epochal work on The Rockford Files...
...There are certain songs where [Liang] will think of bits of Egyptian or British songs I would not have thought of, which enhance the show and make it that much funnier," Dudley said...