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...Most of you probably think this entry has got to be a joke. The rest of you have actually watched the show. Adapted from a cheesy '70s Star Wars clone of the same name, Galactica (returning in January) is a ripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal robots called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal. The basic-cable budget sometimes shows in the production, but the writing and performances are first-class, especially Edward James Olmos as the noble but authoritarian commander in charge of saving...
...tune in to his show has always been seeing how far he?d go. Which raises the question: will his act wear thin if he doesn?t have the FCC watching over him like a Victorian grandma intent on washing his mouth out every time he lets a fart joke...
...don’t think any [critic] sets out to be vicious. You try to be just, and you try to be entertaining, and where those two things meet is the locus of the review. And that can be hurtful to the person who is the butt of the joke, so to speak. But it can’t be helped, because you want to be both just and entertaining.”Simon’s justice is no longer of the here and now, a fact he embraces with unwavering pessimism. “People just produce...
...think one of things that we’re focusing on is that it’s a parody of a tragedy, that a lot of it is not a joke, but has comical elements. For us, it’s a masquerade. It’s much more like a carnival…The show is about confronting oneself in an inexplicable universe, what it means to be alone, to make someone lonely, to be on the brink of death. But it’s also a farce. Those are all pretty grand ideas to fit into an hour...
...Marks ’06, and Wendy D. Widman ’06 The triumphant trio, FM’s pink polo-clad proofers keep us (relatively) out of trouble with the law and various campus organizations. When the FM eds are giggling about yet another inane sex joke, the proofers giggle with us, then shoot us stern glances (translation: get me pages...