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ENTOURAGE: HBO's latest sitcom is no breakthrough...
...Franken and Janeane Garofalo on liberal radio network Air America, Howard Stern fulminating against the FCC or Chris Rock calling Bush a liar in an HBO special, political--and often anti-Bush--commentary has replaced "White guys can't dance" jokes as comedy's mainstay. And while Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, right, professes to be nonpartisan, it has lately become a one-stop source for lacerating criticism of the war in Iraq (or as The Daily Show has called it, the "Mess O' Potamia") and the Administration in general...
...seconds into Sex and the City, the HBO sitcom cleaned up so it can be rerun on TBS (starting this Tuesday), you notice something missing. It's not the sex; it's the samba. The opening credits are cut radically, bars of the Latin theme song snipped. What does a risque pay-cable show look like on basic cable? For one thing, shorter...
...City is not the first HBO show to have its reruns syndicated; The Larry Sanders Show has run on Bravo. But here the dirty talk and naughty bits are more integral. To phrase it like one of those koans sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) earnestly types into her laptop, Can you have Sex without...
...look at a few episodes from TBS (like HBO and TIME, a unit of Time Warner) shows that you can--sort of. The most conspicuous cuts are, surprisingly, not in the nudity--we lose breasts but not buttocks--but in the language. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the randiest and thus most excised character, trysts with her fireman lover, TBS cuts a scene of them humping against a fire engine. But it's more jarring when another fire fighter catches her trying on his uniform and yells, "Get the freak out of my freakin' gear! There's a freakin' fire...