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...compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap on TV, ounce for ounce...
...time Schroeder’s piano produces the sound of some absent instrument. Four shots if it sounds like a full jazz quartet. 5. Every time someone makes fun of Pigpen’s appearance; ponder why they keep picking on the kid that can’t afford soap. 6. Whenever you feel Charles Schultz gets too preachy in the script. 7. Every time a non-white character comes on screen. Prepare to end the night sober. 8. Reinforce your own crippling insecurity by taking a shot every time Linus retreats to his blanket. 9. Every time you?...
...holds-barred comedy was matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera--outbursts of violence, run-ins with the law, and drug abuse that culminated in 1980, at the height of his freebasing years, when he set himself on fire and nearly died. All of which, remarkably, became fodder for his stand-up. "You know something I found out?" he said of his self-immolation. "When you're on fire and running down the street, people get out of your way." Multiple sclerosis, diagnosed in 1985, all but silenced him in his later years. But his ruthless...
...Asia since 1930. DIED. RICHARD PRYOR, 65, celebrated American comic revolutionary; of a heart attack, in Encino, California. Pryor's comedy re-created the street characters?winos, pimps, junkies?he had grown up with. His no-holds-barred acts were matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera?outbursts of violence, run-ins with the law, and drug abuse that culminated in 1980 when he set himself on fire and nearly died. All of which became fodder for his stand-up. "You know something I found out?" he said of his self-immolation. "When...
...have The Color Purple's $10 million advance, which should be enough to let this adaptation of the Alice Walker novel ride out the mostly mixed reviews it received today. Critics wanted to be respectful yet say that this mixture of melodrama and pop music was just an elevated soap Oprah...