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...real stinker), but Fox's set is at least more original-sounding than most other networks' (and they look much better than its horrible crop this season, "Wanda at Large" excepted). "A Minute with Stan Hooper" stars Norm MacDonald - as a New York TV personality who moves to small-town Wisconsin to produce a show and finds the locals are less simple than he expects. "Luis" stars character actor Luis Guzman ("Boogie Nights") as the owner of an East Harlem donut shop; prime-time could use a few more working-class sitcoms (is a donut shop owner blue collar...
Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, the two earlier improvised comedies Guest assembled and directed, are about people whose dream of achieving an obscure goal (putting on a small-town musical, winning a dog show) far outstrips their sense or competence. In A Mighty Wind, he and co-writer Eugene Levy offer a new blueprint for poignant idiocy: the reunion of three folk groups 40 years after their 15 seconds of fame...
...Rome. The working-class Sordi started out dubbing voices for radio, then went on to play roles ranging from doctors and cab drivers to Fascist officers in more than 160 movies. Most memorably, he played the title character--a spoiled soap-opera star who is the object of a small-town bride's romantic fantasies--in Federico Fellini's 1952 classic The White Sheik...
Brown says her small-town background has motivated her to explore Boston—she goes to movies, stores and dance clubs as much as she can. She excelled in her most recent ballroom competition, and she’s been invited to join Pleiades, a new women’s social club. Meanwhile, her brother Jared has applied to Harvard, and Brown hopes he’ll have the honor of being the second person from her high school to attend...
...dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following comment about a gaggle of pushy pensioners: "[I was] comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead." One reviewer was so outraged by the remark that he recommended that Bryson seek psychiatric help...