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Two Of A Kind: Sacha Baron Cohen And Andy Kaufman
9 July 2009 11:00 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
If you’ve witnessed any episode of HBO’s “Da Ali G Show,” the 2006 film “Borat” or its upcoming spiritual follow-up “Brüno,” then it’d be very easy to come to the conclusion that Sacha Baron Cohen is a comedic chameleon without equal. You would be wrong though. There also a not-so-little somebody that may or may not have gone by the name of Andy Kaufman.
Like Cohen, Kaufman’s entire routine depended on the idea of deception: deceiving his co-stars and unwitting participants at times, but always shocking his audience in one form or another. The two entertainers had their own sets of characters but the alter-ego personas definitely share some common traits, if only in method and on a thematic level.
In 2006, Cohen broke out into the mainstream with his bumbling man-out-of-country character in “Borat,” a Khazakstanian journalist who travels to America in order to learn the secret ways of its populace,
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Josh Wigler
Cannes Picks the Year's Best Package Design
2 July 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | From Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news
There's a new trend afoot, emphasizing hand-drawn craftiness and artisanal values.
The 56th annual Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival just wrapped up, with the announcement of its winners in the Design Category. Curiously, this is only the second year that the festival has included design in its awards, even though design has become an inescapable part of branding. (Better late than never, we guess.) You can check out the Design winners on Cannes's badly designed Web site. The Dieline went one better, combing through those entries, and gathering all of the packaging winners. It's a pretty great group.
Interestingly enough, two of the three Gold winners were good examples of a recent trend that's come about, which makes a virtue out of rough, almost amateurish sketches. It's an aesthetic that has some precedent in the "grunge design" pioneered by David Carson in the 1980s and 1990s (who recently spoke at Ted ), and,
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Cliff Kuang
[DVD Review] TV Sets: Forever Funny
27 May 2009 11:44 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news
TV Sets: Forever Funny fetches a brilliant collection of shows to tickle the funny bone as a sampling of the comedic programs CBS has put out over time. Any collection that features Taxi, Cheers, The Odd Couple and Frasier is doing something right of the comedy front – but that’s only half the issue. Along with choosing the funniest shows possible, the funniest episodes of the series ought be selected as well. Instead, in an obvious attempt to encourage folks to start at the beginning, CBS has chosen the pilot episodes of each series. Once again, like in the TV Sets: Action Packed DVD, pilots are great for hooking an audience when the show is brand new – but these are classic shows that your average television viewer has seen at least a few episodes of.
There are two things more puzzling than the steadfast notion that the pilot episodes were
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Lex Walker
Danza Lands 'Responsible' Reality Show
14 May 2009 6:35 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Actor Tony Danza is heading back to the classroom to front his own reality TV show about education.
The former Taxi star, 58, admits he is struggling to find work as an actor, so he has decided to spend a year teaching 10th grade English at a New York City school - and film it for an as-yet-untitled series.
And Danza, who earned a degree in history education from Iowa's University of Dubuque before launching his acting career, insists the programme will carve out a new genre for reality TV.
He says, "I was talking about going back and answering the call to service and doing something different with my life. I'm going to teach 10th grade English and have some other duties, maybe a drama class, and all of the things that come with teaching, like cafeteria duty.
"I'm trying to do what I call 'responsible reality'. I don't want to do that other (reality) stuff and I don't want to do a game show, and nobody's knocking down my door for acting jobs.
"I'm hoping that I'm going to move into the community and try to change some lives. I can smell 60 now and I've got a little bit of wisdom."
The name of the school where Danza will teach will remain under wraps for privacy reasons, reports the New York Post.
The series will air on America's A&E network this autumn.
DVD Playhouse--May 2009
11 May 2009 11:22 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news
DVD Playhouse—May 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount Studios releases two more classic titles from its library on special edition DVD: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is John Ford’s last masterpiece (although he would go on to direct two more very good films) from 1962: about an Eastern lawyer (James Stewart) who travels west only to find primal brutality in the form of sadistic bandit Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin, great as always) and pragmatic brutality in local rancher Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), each two sides of a coin that represent a way of life slowly dying out as Stewart’s modern brand of civilization tames the West. A perfect film, period. Howard Hawks’ El Dorado is essentially a remake of his earlier classic Rio Bravo, with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and a young James Caan as lawmen joining forces against corrupt cattle barons. Great fun. Two disc sets.
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ER Admits Last Patient: Marilu Henner
1 April 2009 2:50 PM, PDT | From TVGuide.com - Features | See recent TVGuide - Features news
ER is pulling out all the stops for its two-hour series finale Thursday (9 pm/Et, NBC), including recruiting a few familiar faces from television — not just ER — past. Taxi alum Marilu Henner will drop by County General after clashing with a certain member of her family. The actress, who is also guesting on Starz's Party Down and ABC Family's Roommates, previews her scarring turn with TVGuide.com and shares how she indirectly shaped the iconic ER cast.
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Joyce Eng
ER Admits Last Patient: Marilu Henner
1 April 2009 2:50 PM, PDT | From TVGuide - Breaking News | See recent TVGuide.com - Breaking News news
ER is pulling out all the stops for its two-hour series finale Thursday (9 pm/Et, NBC), including recruiting a few familiar faces from television — not just ER — past. Taxi alum Marilu Henner will drop by County General after clashing with a certain member of her family. The actress, who is also guesting on Starz's Party Down and ABC Family's Roommates, previews her scarring turn with TVGuide.com and shares how she indirectly shaped the iconic ER cast.
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Joyce Eng
dream cast: hypothetical ‘Taxi’ movie
19 February 2009 1:10 PM, PST | From www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news
It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Taxi, the 1978-83 ABC-then-nbc sitcom about New York City cab drivers and their abusive dispatcher. (If you have a suggestion for an 80s TV show or movie we should play with, feel free to email me.) The original cast included: Alex Rieger: Judd Hirsch Louie De Palma: Danny DeVito Elaine O’Connor Nardo: Marilu Henner Tony Banta: Tony Danza Bobby Wheeler: Jeff Conaway Reverend Jim Ignatowski: Christopher Lloyd Latka Gravas: Andy Kaufman Simka Dahblitz-Gravas: Carol Kane My dream cast: Alex Rieger: Connor Trinneer Louie De Palma: Peter Dinklage* Elaine O’Connor Nardo: Zoey Deschanel Tony Banta: Noel Clarke Bobby Wheeler: Owen Wilson Reverend Jim Ignatowski: Hugh Laurie Latka Gravas: Eddie Izzard Simka Dahblitz-Gravas: Catherine Tate
MaryAnn Johanson
DeVito Calls For Taxi Movie
29 January 2009 2:00 PM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Danny DeVito is hailing a cab all the way to the movies - he wants his hit TV show Taxi to be revamped as a reunion film. The actor, who played a bad-tempered boss in the beloved sitcom, wants to reteam with Christopher Lloyd, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza and the rest of the surviving cast for a movie.
He says, "It's not out of the question that down the line we could go revisit the garage and do a really good Taxi reunion movie.
“We love Taxi. I did five years on it. All the people on Taxi are my friends. Everybody started doing other things, so we were all separated and there was no way to get us back together at the same time.”
York's Enter Laughing Returns to NY Stage 1/21
20 January 2009 1:21 PM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is proud to announce the return engagement of its acclaimed production of Enter Laughing: The Musical. Performances will begin Wednesday, January 21st, and continue until March 8th only; all performances will be at the company's home at The Theatre at Saint Peter's (Lexington Avenue just south of 54th Street). Stuart Ross (Forever Plaid) directs a cast that features Josh Grisetti ("The Knights of Prosperity") as David Kolowitz, "La Law's" married couple Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker as his parents, Bob Dishy (Tony Award? nominee and Drama Desk Award winner for Sly Fox; Flora The Red Menace, The Price) as Marlowe, and Marla Schaffel (Tony Award? nominee and Drama Desk Award winner for Jane Eyre) as Angela, along with Paul Binotto, Ray DeMattis, Erick Devine, Betsy Dilellio, Gerry McIntyre, Robb Sapp, Emily Shoolin, and Allison Spratt. Matt Castle is the Music
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