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...charismatic couple who love both each other and their son. When Frank begins to laugh at himself after overreacting to a man who has given Alan a disapproved-of horseback ride at the beach, we can see the danger in pathologizing Alan’s behavior as a reaction to his parents—or even, as the play suggests, as any more pathological than that of a normal, imperfect person...
America probably had a different reaction. Namely, Arrested what? It's not that the sitcom has lacked for publicity. The story of the eccentric, wealthy Bluth family, thrown into chaos when the sEC investigates the Bluth house-building business, was singled out by the New York Times as the show that might "save the sitcom." But all the plaudits may have convinced people only that the show was another critic's darling that would be too much work to watch. "People talk about it in such reverent terms," says Fox entertainment president Gail Berman. "I say it's just funny...
Everyone from shareholders to Senators had protested the original plans, but some of the most effective reaction came from websites like Boycottsinclair broadcasting.com and Stopsinclair.org Left-leaning bloggers like Daily Kos and Talking PointsMemo.com pointed thousands of readers to online petitions. A list of 200 major Sinclair advertisers and investors, with phone numbers and email addresses, made the virtual rounds. "We got $83,000 in donations our first day," says Arkadi Gerney, founder of Stopsinclair.org "For us, that's big money...
...seen Raise Your Voice before: this film is formula-driven, from typical start to predictable finish. But no matter how many times Duff clips her lines or awkwardly over-acts her most intense scenes, the film somehow recovers. Despite its reliance on ham-fisted elements to a garner a reaction, Raise Your Voice pulls off moments where palpable, genuine emotion pumps from the screen...
...seemed to me that a lot of groups on the left are kind of atomized and present themselves as an opposition to conservative organizations,” Karvounis said. “It struck me that to constantly present your principles as a reaction to someone else’s discredits your idea because it paints you as a bunch of whiners...