Word: poniewozik
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...wouldn't matter much if Fat Actress were funnier, but it's simply as indulgent as a pint of Chunky Monkey. Think it's impossible to make fun of your weight on TV and still end up with a vanity project? Fat Actress proves you wrong again. --By James Poniewozik...
...audiences weren't ready for a serial format. But One is made for the DVD era: watching the 23 "chapters" consecutively, you can better appreciate both the potboiler plot and the performance by alternate suspect Stanley Tucci. Think of it as practice for the Michael Jackson trial. --By James Poniewozik...
...narrative so much as a series of vignettes and Emmy-clip speeches--a jam session of 12-bar vamps. But each player makes his or her bit sing in a raucous, syncopated valentine to an oddball community, to black culture and to mother love itself. --By James Poniewozik...
...claim on him. He didn't merely want to transcend second-class status; he seemed to believe his talent placed him in a class above all. Blackness captures how tragically he was proved wrong--and how exhilaratingly, for moments in the ring, he proved himself right. --By James Poniewozik...
ESSAY: James Poniewozik on our steroid-enhanced hypocrisy...