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...conscious decision to go into live action. This was the first thing I wanted to jump on,” he says. “It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life.” Gone too is the hapless patriarch typified by Peter Griffin. Instead, the show stars Robert Corddry (“The Daily Show”) as the unemployed, single Glen, who lives at home with his parents in Buffalo. “This is very autobiographical,” boasts show-creator Ricky Blitt, a veteran writer...

Author: By Jeremy R. Steinemann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New MacFarlane Show Debuts | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks: Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an "immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terrorist suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word faggot at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast in October. French President Jacques Chirac said it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaffes to the Rescue | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks, Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an " immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terror suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word "faggot" at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast last October. French president Jacques Chirac said that it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaffes Can Be Deceiving | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...found him and brought him back. The doctor treated him briefly, then sent him back to the wild." Unfortunately for Xiang Xiang, the tough-love approach only compounded his problems. In a subsequent encounter with a woods-wise cousin, Xiang Xiang tried to escape by climbing a tree. The hapless bear fell out and, from what rangers could gather over their monitors, probably broke a leg. Since then, Xiang Xiang hasn't been seen. Still, Zhang insists his charge had to be banished. "We did not want to keep Xiang Xiang because that would have shown our experiment had failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Pampered Pandas | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...Columbia salvage its weekend with a victory over the once-hapless Greenies? In a word, no. The Big Green...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ivy League Ready To Kick Into Full Swing | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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