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...adapts her Jesus persona into sitcom form with The Sarah Silverman Program, a surreal mix of comedy, singing (she has a lovely, musical-theater voice) and animation that pushes more buttons than an Empire State Building elevator operator. In one episode, her character ("Sarah Silverman") sleeps with God, who is black, then blows him off, but not without guilt. "I'm not one of those people," she protests, "who's like, 'Oh, God is black--is he going to steal the moon or something?'" In another, she takes in a homeless man to upstage her sister's humanitarian boyfriend...
...local film industry and its ability to send stories to the world. As just one example, he cites the late adventurer Steve Irwin, who recorded his elephant-seal role in Happy Feet just months before his September death this year. "Irwin was Australian not only in his persona but in his actions," Miller says. "And that's gone from us now. I think that applies a lot to our culture ? We're exporting our talent but not our culture." While he might speak with an American accent, Miller's Mumble might beg to differ. Right now across the globe, this...
...both the execution and the way it was carried out.? But Iraqis were unfazed by the spectacle, which seemed mild by comparison to scenes of street violence that play out everyday here.? For many Iraqis, the sight of Hussein as a dead man walking simply cast his shrinking persona deeper into a past that seems more distant all the time...
Taking inspiration from the cabarets of Weimar-era Germany, Palmer and Viglione adopted an aesthetic and on-stage persona that is by turns dark, satirical, theatrical, and a little threatening...
...proves that he has what it takes to be a serious actor and that he can do more than just save the world from aliens—twice. If Smith breaks away from his big-budget history and takes on more human roles, he will leave his Fresh Prince persona behind once...