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...brainless Hollywood bombast, you can look not for bigger films but for smarter ones. The romance novels of summer are beach litter now; time to buckle down to nonfiction. TV may be ready to take off its dancing shoes and take on weighty subjects-like a Chris Rock sitcom that defuses racism by exploding...
...brainless Hollywood bombast, you can look not for bigger films but for smarter ones. The romance novels of summer are beach litter now; time to buckle down to nonfiction. TV may be ready to take off its dancing shoes and take on weighty subjects--like a Chris Rock sitcom that defuses racism by exploding...
...producer Judd Apatow gave us Freaks and Geeks, an excruciatingly funny high school dramedy that died after one glorious season. In 2001 he created the more upbeat sitcom Undeclared, set at a fictional California college, and ... it died after one glorious season. Undeclared covered familiar campus-comedy ground (sex, beer, pranks) but had an intuition for the self-discovery that emerges amid finals and keg parties, and the ensemble gave the dialogue a loose, improv feel. Fleshed out with commentaries (and an unaired episode), this four-disc set is a graduate seminar in smart comedy...
Dabney Coleman established himself as Hollywood's go-to smarmy jerk in such sublimely '80s comedies as Nine to Five and Tootsie. But he hit his apex of riotous unlikability in this 1983-84 sitcom about local talk-show host Bill Bittinger. Selfish, lecherous and desperate to move up the career ladder, he irritated and deceived his crew (including a young Geena Davis) with impeccable smarminess. Bill presaged HBO's Larry Sanders and The Office's David Brent, but it took TV a decade or two to catch up with him. Thankfully...
...agency enrolled Benjamin in a sitcom-acting class with people literally just off the bus from Kansas. He had no interest in sitcoms and found "a few of the exercises silly," but even while doing improv skits in his classmates' run-down apartments, Benjamin recognized that acting gave him a different kind of creative freedom. "As a [musician], I have a set image, and no one wants to see me sad or anything. But in acting, you're allowed to be whatever. You can be embarrassed. You get a chance to cry. People expect you to be real...