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Take a cast of edgy comics and stars-to-be--Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Dick and others--give them cameras and a network budget, and what do you get? The lowest-rated show of the 1992-93 TV season--and a classic of sketch comedy. The Ben Stiller Show was an attempt to reclaim Saturday Night Live's creaky format for the kids. But it reflected a Gen X ambivalence about youth culture as a marketing concept, as in "The Grungies," a sketch about a Seattle grunge band modeled on the prefab '60s act the Monkees...
...cover A material would make for a tacky thrill if he weren't so dreadfully serious in his approach. Instead of turning in a winking version of I'm in the Mood for Love or Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Stewart rearranges his phrasing to fit the classic material; neither benefits, and the result is an album that feels as if it has been untethered from a cheesy romantic comedy. It's eerily soulless...
...swans - became a smash, transferring to the West End for a record-breaking 21-week run. Broadway followed, as did international tours and more than 25 major awards. Next came Cinderella, set in the London Blitz, and Car Man, a film noir treatment of Bizet's classic. Both had major West End runs. But the critics were not entirely impressed; many dismissed Bourne as a showman rather than a dance man, a label that has stuck. The Mail on Sunday has called him "both the best and the worst thing to have happened to British dance in the past...
...with amazing predictability. Instead of learning the lesson that it's possible to get attention for doing what you have always done, the new crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Robbie Williams sold millions crooning the classics with Swing When You're Winning in 2001; former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing...
...many had to sit on the floor, but the fine acting and directing made up for the deficiencies in the space. In fact, the up-close-and-personal seating arrangement increased the impact of the gore, violence and emotion found in this modern adaptation of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy...