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...wanted French music. I had expected to find Paris dauntingly cool and found myself instead in a Coca-Colonized country.The traditional notion of the French as stolid anti-Americans is complicated by their love for our pop culture. Many French critics hated the recently released “Simpsons?? movie—one radio review called it vulgar, stupid, and American, as if the third adjective naturally followed the first two. Nonetheless, the movie stayed in theaters all summer and the show enjoys near universal popularity, as do other exported TV programs such as “Friends...
...childhood as an Indian-American in New Jersey. Although he says he didn’t face the same cultural expectations from his parents that Gogol does, he notes that he also experienced stereotyping.“Thanks to the genius of ‘The Simpsons?? and ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,’ it took a little bit of work to explain to people that I am neither a cartoon character nor a monkey brain-eater,” Penn explains, laughing.He credits Nair with breaking some of the barriers...
...When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” the once-banned episode of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy,” whose no-holds-barred, nothing-is-sacred schtick has made the show the biggest primetime cartoon since “The Simpsons??—and made MacFarlane a star. But for a man who has built his career on flouting the standards of acceptable humor on TV, MacFarlane sees himself as a kind of traditionalist. The way he describes it, his new show “The Winner...
...After graduating in 1981, Jean and Reiss were hired immediately by the National Lampoon. Over the next few years, they wrote for a number of TV shows, including “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," before joining the “Simpsons?? team for the show’s debut...
...Both Jean and Reiss are spending a great deal of time on the long-awaited “Simpsons?? movie, slated to be released in July 2007, the plot of which is being kept strictly under wraps...