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...true this holiday season—with dining halls adorned in colored lights, tinsel, wreaths, and ribbons—Cabot House has outdone them all with a nine-foot aluminum pole. The unadorned pole is one of the many trappings of the secular holiday Festivus, popularized by the sitcom “Seinfeld” during a 1997 episode entitled “The Strike.” Frank Costanza, father of the recurring character George Costanza, claims to have invented the holiday as a protest against the commercialization of Christmas. “A Festivus for the rest...
Richards, who played Kramer on the hit ’90s sitcom “Seinfeld,” was caught on video saying some very nasty things to two black men who supposedly interrupted his act at the Laugh Factory. (The men claim they were just ordering drinks.) Instead of using a witty line to put the hecklers in their place, Richards used a racist...
Look to the cookie!" If only Michael Richards had remembered the advice of Jerry Seinfeld, rhapsodizing on his sitcom about the racial-harmony message of the black-and-white cookie. When Richards (Seinfeld's Kramer) called African-American hecklers in a comedy club "niggers" and joked about lynching them, it capped a season of celebrity lunacy. Mel Gibson had his anti-Jewish tirade during a drunk-driving arrest; actor Isaiah Washington reportedly called a fellow Grey's Anatomy cast member a "faggot" during an argument on set. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, apologized last week not for bigotry...
...seasons--three times or so the length of the Korean "police action" it was set in--this sitcom had time to be many shows. It was a political satire, a searing medical drama, a Marx Brothers--like comedy, a tense war comedy, a sex farce and a liberal soapbox. But from its acerbic early years to its earnest latter seasons (starring--above, from left--Alan Alda, Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell), it was a tour de force of TV writing. This 36-disc set offers it all, plus documentaries, a trivia game and the 1970 movie by the late Robert...
...predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl of his dreams (Maggie Gyllenhaal) along the way. “Stranger Than Fiction” is screenwriter Zach Helm’s first movie, and it shows. Built on quirky narration, sitcom level wit, and self-conscious onscreen visuals, it’s a workmanlike indie-comedy for a mainstream audience.With the success of low-scale Charlie Kaufman meta-films (“Adaptation” comes to mind throughout the movie), it was only a matter of time until someone tried...