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...comes from Boris' splenetic vigor: his misery is good company. He's an artist of invective--and in this year's movie gallery of mean old men, a chattier cousin of the widower in Pixar's Up. Credit Boris' vitality to David, resident curmudgeon on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. Boris isn't far from roles Allen has written for himself, yet sentiments that sound whiny when Allen articulates them have a robust manliness in David's voice. Rancor is the medicine that keeps Boris alive. It makes him the ideal foil for Melody's cheerful resilience (which Wood winningly...
...decade, Joe Buck, the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox's baseball and football coverage, has narrated many of the biggest moments in sports. On June 15, the ubiquitous broadcaster kicked off a new phase in his career with the premiere of Joe Buck Live, a quarterly HBO show billed as part sports talk, part sketch comedy. Hours before his first live taping, Buck spoke to TIME about transitioning from the broadcast booth to the host's chair, the perks and pitfalls of the format and how he intended to coax Brett Favre into revealing his future plans...
This show is several years in the making. Can you talk a bit about its evolutionary process? [HBO] always seemed to be interested in hiring me at some point, but they never really had a spot. After I did a pilot for a late-night show a few years ago, we had a good talk, and they told me they'd call when a spot opened up. I was pretty sure I was getting the big old brush-off, but then out of nowhere [Bob Costas, host of HBO's Costas Now, moved to the MLB Network], and they called...
...Buck's HBO debut was marred, however, by a bizarre performance from Artie Lange, a comedian featured on Howard Stern's radio show. During a panel discussion that also featured actor Paul Rudd and Jason Sudeikis of Saturday Night Live, Lange unleashed a string of ribald remarks and quipped that the segment would be Buck's last. HBO said the appearance "bordered on bad taste." Said Buck: "Live is live. Things were said at the end that I am not a fan of, but people can judge what Artie said however they want...
...HBO show HUNG is about exactly what you think it's about...