Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...part because they schooled the Western world in their brand of sublimely silly comedy, the rebels have inevitably become a nostalgia act. So, what changed between the Holy Grail film and the Spamalot show? Idle codified and cute-ified the old loopy, spiky surrealism. The show is so mainstream it's arri?re-garde. It's been polished and burnished, pressed and dry-cleaned, into a Broadway musical that is super-ingratiating - don't risk, can't miss...
...past June was the rising threat of kids and gambling. In his keynote speech, Jeffrey Derevensky, co-director of the McGill University Youth Gambling Research Clinic, called out government and private industry for the unprecedented marketing of gambling to kids--from using cartoon characters on state lottery scratchers to mainstream retailers' selling World Poker Tour chocolates. He cited a number of studies showing a link, although not necessarily a causal relationship, between teen gambling and higher rates of drinking, drugs and suicide. He estimated that there are 5 million youths in the U.S. and Canada who have some kind...
Carpentaria nearly went nowhere. With its unwieldy size and unconventional voice, it was rejected by most mainstream publishers, and Wright was almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher...
...couple of mainstream polls have begun to show that Democrat Harold Ford Jr. is topping Republican Bob Corker in Tennessee's pivotal U.S. Senate race, but Ford may have a little problem on his hands in home-base Memphis: his younger brother Jake - who's running for big brother's old 9th Congressional district seat. Jake is running as an independent against the Democratic nominee with the blessing of the family patriarch and onetime local party boss, Harold Ford...
...might assume that 30 Rock, the sitcom, is the more lightweight show. But Fey began comedy writing with Chicago's Second City troupe, where, she says, "your starting place was always current events and social issues." Her hit movie Mean Girls was a mainstream feminist entertainment that was steeped in ideas but not overwhelmed by them. And 30 Rock is at heart about the race-class-gender triangle among its three leads: Liz, a talented but headstrong woman; Jack, a conservative suit who's not as dumb as Liz wishes he were; and Tracy, a loony--but cannily so--black...