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...next to the frenzied Family Guy and Cleveland, Dad is practically Mad Men. What makes Dad good isn't its political point of view. (MacFarlane, whose liberalism sometimes surfaces on Family Guy, uses Stan to send up post-9/11 jingoism.) It's that the show has a point of view at all. It's about something - satirizing the war on terrorism - and it invests time in its characters without ping-ponging between gags. It's still outrageous: the season premiere had Stan take nerdy son Steve to a Vietnam War re-enactment to toughen him up. (Sending up Vietnam...
Troubles at Home Saakashvili's grand plans don't impress his opponents. They think that he - like most other leaders in this part of the world - is power-mad. The media and judiciary still aren't nearly independent enough. The opposition, whom Vice Prime Minister Temuri Yakobashvili dismissed as "losers, naifs and traitors," says it is persecuted for its dissent. "This energy and force [Saakashvili] has inside is a rare quality," says Sozar Subari, who was until recently Georgia's public defender. "But unfortunately, he used this to strengthen autocracy, not democracy...
...aspiring writer who repeatedly copies works of canonical German writers and that he has written a four-page-long novel. Suddenly and out of context, Leo slaughters him with an axe, appears in Aslan’s afterlife as a god or a demigod, and chants like a mad prophet: “every day isn’t easter, the rabbits haven’t laid any eggs this year, so we’ve postponed the resurrection ceremonies from easter to christmas...
...Mad eloquent. The script clearly didn't help there, and Mark Zuckerberg sees a similarly awkward portrayal in The Social Network complete with terrible dialogue. So, though Eisenberg's acting skills are only 2 stars, he does seem perfectly fitted for this role—looking just like Mark Zuckerberg and seemingly able to fulfill the hopes of the movie's scriptwriter...
...Hilary Duff are still mad...