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...fixation with reality television, from middle-American earnestness to the current Bush administration. But what makes this movie really entertaining is the secret admiration it has for all of the values it pokes fun at; especially its love for the greedy American stereotype it eviscerates, epitomized by Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell/Ryan Seacrest-hybrid host of “American Dreamz,” who is one of the movie’s highlights.Dennis Quaid plays President Stanton, a dead-ringer for George W. Bush, who wears a constant expression of befuddlement on his face and offers pearls...

Author: By Dina Guzovsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Dreamz | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

With a dream cast that includes Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, and Mandy Moore, “American Dreamz” promises to be a successful notch in the career of up-and-coming writer/director Paul Weitz. With his brother Chris, he made his first mark in Hollywood with the smash teen comedy “American Pie.” He has also written and directed “About a Boy” (2002) and “In Good Company” (2004). “American Dreamz” is another comedy that focuses its plotline...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creator Learned to Love Pop 'Dreamz' | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...take Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront." JOHN PRESCOTT, British Deputy Prime Minister, when asked which actor he would want to play him in a film of his life. The former seaman's union activist ruled out British movie star Hugh Grant as being "new Labour, not old Labour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve is the book's sometime narrator "Slow Bones" Hugh, Boone's 100-kg idiot-savant brother. Wandering city streets with his folding chair, "I was up and off like a greyhound after an electric hare," says Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...remember Shel Silverstein from our numerous childhood encounters with his classic children’s stories, poetry and musical compositions. But what most of us don’t know is that Silverstein began his career in 1956 working for Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Magazine. Strange to imagine that the man who brought us “A Light in the Attic,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” and “The Giving Tree” simultaneously drafted scandalously entertaining works for adults...

Author: By Allegra M. Richards, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On The Radar: An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

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