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...reminder that the noble-suffering genre flowered in the disease-of-the-week TV movies that were a staple of '80s prime-time network schedules. Inspirationals are more at home at home. There, one can cry buckets without mortification; no one's around to notice. A movie theater, though, is a public, not intimate, space - a cathedral, not a confessional. Knowing this, Hollywood mostly avoids feature-length sentiment and concentrates on movies that can rouse a crowd. People in theaters don't mind laughing out loud or gasping at a shock scene; both humor and fear are audibly contagious. Sentiment...
...plot of an acclaimed British mini: at least change the title so it doesn't contain two bland nouns separated by an of; titles like Edge of Darkness and State of Play are foggy and instantly forgettable. Second tip: Don't bother. (See the best movies, TV, books and theater of the past decade...
Cheers, hoots and applause echoed in the nearly sold-out 275-seat movie theater in Rochester, N.Y., where Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly fans gathered to watch a broadcast of the duo on their national Bold and Fresh tour. Beck opened solo, with a routine that within the first six minutes started in on the State of the Union address President Obama had delivered the Wednesday before. "It was fantastic, so let me start with something nice," Beck said, then paused, staring blankly at the audience. "O.K., give me a minute, I'll think of something." The crowd roared...
...This is not a country that I recognize as America. It's not going to last, because Americans are not this stupid." The crowd erupted in deafening cheers. When he described Sarah Palin as a character "so many people gravitate toward because she's real," one woman in the theater called out, "Yeah, she is!" Several heads - outfitted with Bold and Fresh baseball caps - bobbed up and down in agreement. (See TIME's cover story on Glenn Beck...
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