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...Sacha Baron Cohen a Golden Globe for playing a Kazakh journalist who calls Alan Keyes a "genuine chocolate face" and asks a gun-shop owner to suggest a good piece for killing a Jew. Quentin Tarantino has made a career borrowing tropes from blaxploitation movies. In the critics-favorite sitcom The Sarah Silverman Program, the star sleeps with God, who is African American and who she assumes is "God's black friend." And the current season of South Park opened with an episode about a Michael Richards-esque controversy erupting when a character blurts the word niggers on Wheel...
...Live Free or Die” there is nothing funny about the not-so-ironic depression that follows the audience home after witnessing a full-length film about hopeless, directionless mediocrity and with barely enough character development for one episode of a sitcom. —Staff writer Mollie K. Wright can be reached at mkwright@fas.harvard.edu...
...Down button, and her stock fell as fast as it rose. The DeMille circus spectacular was her last major movie. She took a rodeo to Broadway (for three weeks), headlined the first big original musical for television (some considered it a fiasco) and in 1959 fronted a one-season sitcom (where her domineering attitude had other actors referring to her as Nero). Still in her 30s, she was essentially kaput in show business...
There are flashes of Middle Eastern awareness emerging: the midseason sitcom Andy Barker, P.I. features an Afghan kebab-house owner who defensively festoons his shop with patriotic kitsch. Still, in Axis Aron Kader complains that even today he meets people who can't pronounce Palestine. "Come on! We're responsible for half the terrorism in the last 50 years!" he rants. "How many rocks do we have to throw...
...MacFarlane sees himself as a kind of traditionalist. The way he describes it, his new show “The Winner,” set to debut Sunday, March 4 on Fox, seems downright tame. He insists it has the right combination of heart and humor that made traditional sitcoms like “Cheers” such big hits—strange words from the man who lends his voice to maniacal baby Stewie and Brian, a talking dog with an alcohol problem, on “Family Guy.” But whether “The Winner?...