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...help its stars bring emotional plausibility to their roles. Foxx seems both fretful and distracted; he can be a vital screen presence, but his characters need to act, not just react and endure. Butler has the showier part, but his impersonation of the tragic hero is undercut by his weird resemblance to Soupy Sales. You start hoping that Shelton will kill somebody with a custard (or puffer-fish) pie to the face...
...weak, high-concept sitcoms like Hank, which features Kelsey Grammer as a downsized CEO. Even some more-inventive sitcoms are familiar types: FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is like a raucous, lowlife Seinfeld, and ABC's Better Off Ted, a workplace satire with a weird but sincere heart. But one look at Seinfeld's old home, NBC's Thursday night - with The Office, Parks, 30 Rock and the bright new outcasts-in-junior-college comedy Community - and we can see how sitcoms have become more ambitious and strong...
...longer have family connected with them to take care of them, they're running out of space, and there are issues about who's going to pay for the upkeep. So the gorgeous European cemeteries have their own problems. But of course, in America we've had some weird scandals lately, like the Burr Oak thing in Chicago - apparently employees were emptying graves and reselling plots...
...book you tend toward in a bookstore? I try to range freely around the bookstore. I have a fantasy of opening a bookstore, and if I ever do that, it's not going to have sections or categories. I think we should encourage people to get out of their weird little categories. Instead of saying, "I only read business books" or "I only read romance" or whatever it is that people think they read, it would be nice if everybody would graze more widely...
...also says that Lue was often included on e-mails planning social outings. “He would always be one of the first to respond. It was very not weird, even though he’s this big deal professor...