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Chatting with the always interesting Bill Maher

by B.J. Hammerstein [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[14.Oct.09] :. Love him or hate him, Bill Maher is a man on a mission. Maher, who hit hard on the big screen last year with the audacious critique of organized religion, “Religulous,” has just completed...

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Bill Maher, still politically incorrect

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[20.Apr.09] :. If you watch “Real Time With Bill Maher” on HBO these days, you may have noticed something odd: the audience booing the host. It happens almost every week now, usually after Maher says...

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Bill Maher tries to get religion in ‘Religulous’

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[17.Feb.09] :. When President Barack Obama said in his inaugural address that “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and non-believers,” satirist Bill Maher and others fitting into...

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Audiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood films

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...

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Religulous

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. Certainty grants Bill Maher an easy target, especially as he is, he says, selling doubt: "That's my product."

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‘Religulous’ Mocks the Mockable

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. There are certain unwinnable arguments in life, debates where no one side can claim clear victory. Argue over abortion, and see how staunch either position becomes. Discuss race and prejudice and the...

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Bill Maher hopes to get people thinking with his tirade against organized religion

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[2.Oct.08] :. ORLANDO, Fla.—Never let it be said that Bill Maher ran away from a fight. The comic and cultural critic is famous for questioning and ridiculing America’s sacred cows. With his new film,...

 

The irreverent Bill Maher takes on religion with ‘Religulous’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[29.Sep.08] :. TORONTO—Bill Maher had to face down protests when he showed up at the premiere of “Religulous” at the Toronto International Film Festival a few weeks ago. The heckling clutch of...

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

 

The always politically incorrect Bill Maher talks politics, cannibals

by Michael Hamersly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[9.May.08] :. To say Bill Maher is politically incorrect is about as much of an understatement as is possible. In fact, the wry comedian was so politically incorrect regarding 9-11 that ABC canceled his show,...

 

Bill Maher: 2008 candidates a ‘good field’ for comedians

by Marijke Rowland [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[12.Jul.07] :. Bill Maher clearly loves to speak his mind. But unlike other comedians, what is on Maher’s mind isn’t his bad date or his crazy mother. It’s the bad government and crazy...

 

The real Bill Maher riffs on the headlines

by Howard Cohen [McClatchy Newspapers [The Miami Herald]]

[19.Jan.07] :. George W. Bush has been good for Bill Maher. His administration’s image problems have fueled every season of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” and, before that, Maher’s...

 

Real Time with Bill Maher

by Bill Gibron

[20.Feb.06] :. Material can turn scandalous, even scatological. Bill Maher is often the first to drag the focus into the social sewer, and he loves to play the non-PC card.

 

Real Time with Bill Maher

by Terry Sawyer

[21.Apr.03] :. A provocative, dead-on, and hilarious political roundtable.

 

Tomcats (2001)

by Ben Varkentine

'Tomcats' is a morally reprehensible film about bad people behaving badly.