Articles tagged "george carlin"

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Them’s still fightin’ words, by George!

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Jun.08] :. Comedian George Carlin always cheerily referred to himself as “a footnote in American legal history,” and in the wake of his death from a heart attack Sunday night, he turned into the...

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With the death of George Carlin, cerebral comedy just took a big hit

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[24.Jun.08] :. Wonder if he got “the two-minute warning”? George Carlin’s fans know what I’m talking about. It’s part of a routine he did in the ‘70s, about the possibility of...

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At age 70, George Carlin still calls it like he sees it

by Todd Camp [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Apr.08] :. In just over five decades in show business, George Carlin has graduated from comedy’s troublemaking Class Clown (the title of his 1972 Grammy-winning album), to one of its most respected deans,...

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George Carlin says he’s not angry - just disillusioned

by Sarah Linn [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. For entertainer George Carlin, comedy is a secret weapon. “Laughter is a completely Zen moment. When a person laughs, they’re completely defenseless,” he explains in his familiar...

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George Carlin slams politics, group-think, racism

by Michael Hamersly [McClatchy Newspapers]

[11.Dec.06] :. As consistently profane, right-on-the-edge provocative, and sometimes offensive as he has been over his four-decades-plus career, it still wouldn’t be paradoxical to call George Carlin a class...

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Film Review

Cars (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.06] :. Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.

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The Aristocrats (2005)

by Kevin Wong

[12.Aug.05] :. The sheer number of performances wears thin by film's end.

 

Bill & Ted’s Most Excellent Collection (2005)

by John G. Nettles

[21.Jul.05] :. Bill and Ted have barely a brain between them and speak in brilliantly realized Surferese: they're that guy you know who still snickers at the double entendres in Van Halen album titles.

 

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Sep.04] :. Affleck and Smith talk lots about shooting details and feelings about their chosen fields, their mutual esteem and affection audible.

 

Jersey Girl (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Mar.04] :. Early in Jersey Girl, Ben Affleck cries. It's a grim and alarming moment.

 

Scary Movie 3 (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Oct.03] :. Just when you thought the Scary Movie franchise had run out of ideas, here it comes again -- looking like it's run out of ideas.

 

George Carlin

by Scott Thill

[21.Jun.01] :. “I’m a Fucking Visionary”George Carlin Stays Hungry (and Angry) This isn’t my father’s George Carlin, to pervert a phrase, something Carlin himself has loved to...