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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With a CPA's gray suit and harried face, Black built a fan base as a commentator on The Daily Show. This HBO hour displays his grousing wit and splenetic temperament in full fulmination as he rails against the world and the heavens too. (He's no fan of the Old Testament God.) On his Washington stage, Black naturally has opinions about George W. Bush, who makes him very angry. He's also miffed at the Democrats for not finding a candidate who could defeat Bush in 2004: "It would be like finding a normal person who would lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Standouts of Stand-up Comedy Come to DVD | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...felt bad because he was completely defenseless." His other challengers may not be so lucky. So vitriolic are Boll?s feelings towards the content creators at Ain?t it Cool News -a website capable of generating so much Internet buzz about a film that it was featured in the HBO series Entourage-that when his request to fight Ain't it Cool?s reviewer who slammed BloodRayne was turned, he agreed instead to battle Jeff Sneider, a freelancer for the site who had never even seen one of Boll?s movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'World's Worst Director' Fights Back | 9/23/2006 | See Source »

...tone. It is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, whose guide is a purported TV host and "sixth most famous man in Kazakhstan" of the former Soviet Union. Borat is the nom de guerrilla-humor of Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G. - as HBO viewers know, and many millions more will, when this deeply sick, utterly irresistible film opens in theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Number of seconds nominee Ellen Burstyn appeared (in a flashback) in the HBO movie Mrs. Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 21, 2006 | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...WIRE SEASON 3 DAVID SIMON IS the Balzac of Baltimore. Each season the writer-creator's sprawling HBO crime drama takes on a different social issue in the inner city--this time asking whether it's possible to break the cycle of drugs and violence. A police major (Robert Wisdom) creates a system of unofficial "free zones"--blocks where drug dealing is tacitly legalized. Meanwhile a drug kingpin (Idris Elba) tries to persuade his crew to run its drug trade like a business, with less bloodshed and more profit. The surprising--and politically and personally explosive--results on both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Stellar Series to Catch Up with on DVD | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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