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Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...There's no risk of such an insult at the East End Brewery, where patrons can enjoy the fruits of a revolution that began when American drinkers rebelled against a macrobrew industry whose idea of choice was "tastes great" versus "less filling." And did I mention the best thing about East End? It's right across the street from TIME's offices. Happy hour calls...
...McBride had beat him. While McBride gets to return to a life of wealthy retirement in Tampa, Florida's governor has to confront the biggest challenge of his political career: how to implement an expensive amendment to the state constitution that requires smaller public school class sizes. To add insult to injury, he campaigned against the idea, but now has to enforce it. Is that laughter coming from Tampa...
...something revelatory. The first thing to notice about Def Poetry Jam is that the audience is engaged more directly and passionately (shouts of assent or murmurs of sympathy after each line that connects) than any other on Broadway. The second thing to notice, especially after the gangsta-posturing insult raps of 8 Mile, is how empowering, often funny and always life affirming the words...
...Close Encounter,? skeleton fingers grab Samo Hung?s butt; skeleton teeth snack on his ample flesh. (It?s a nightmare, the kind the ITMFG films rarely wake up from.) You?ll need a high threshold of pain for roughhouse and Cantonese insult comedy, for fall-on-their-asses reactions that Shemp Howard would have rejected as overly broad, and for supporting players with cross-eyes and a huge, hairy wart (a talisman of sorts, don?t ask me why, for martial arts movies of the period). But along with some cunning, made-in-the-basement special effects, ?CESK? includes...