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Between the Lines is an exploration
and articulation of the obvious and the obscure. A cavalcade of
creation and commentary designed to amuse and bemuse.
".
. . she's not even reviewing a film, she's telling you
how clever she is."— All
That Jazz
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Blades
of Glory Boxers, briefs, or spectacular spandex? —
Mac
It's no Ice Castles, or Zoolander
for that matter, still and all, just the concept of married
couple Will Arnett and Amy Poehler playing brother and sister
is comedy gold. — KMH
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Grindhouse
Guns, Gals, Ghouls, and Gore a GoGo. Robert Rodriguez
and Quentin Tarantino's double feature issues the following
warnings:
Don't blaspheme.
Don't call a Kiwi an Aussie.
Don't take rides from strangers.
Don't mess with Texas.
(Do, however, see Planet Terror and Death Proof,
they're Supersonic.)
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The Hoax
Richard Gere moves with his gigolo groove but it's Alfred
Molina who really pulls off The Hoax.
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Hot Fuzz
With both barrels blazing, the Brits bust the buddy cop
genre to bits. Bloody good!
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Hollywood
Christmas Paradewill no longer march to its beat —
as announced on March 21, the first day of spring.
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Melinda
and Melinda A
cast of comedians with distinct voices of their own, yet Woody
Allen's odd harmonics still resound:
Josh Brolin (jumping on a trampoline): What do you do for exercise?
Will Ferrel: Tiddlywinks. And an occasional anxiety attack.
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The
OCWe'll miss those crazy kids' antics, especially
the boy banter:
Seth:
I think I made the worst mistake of my entire life. Now I
need to get Summer back and I have to get into Brown.
Ryan: Great. How?
Seth: That's where you come in.
Ryan: We need a plan.
Seth: It's
going to be a long night, Ryan. A lot of whining, a lot of
pining . . . Plan A: I fake my own death. You never want to
underestimate the power of the sympathy vote.
Ryan: Is there a Plan B?
Seth: Yeah, yeah, I could hack in through the Brown firewall,
into the admissions office mainframe, and reverse my acceptance.
Ryan: That's actually good. You know how to do that?
Seth: I had an uncle who went to DeVry.
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The
Office Of
course LINES loves the UK version,
and we do ask for helpings of Extras, but take particular
delight in the U.S. Office' shout-outs to other great
TV shows: To wit:
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The
Office: The Coup Pam: "Movie Mondays" started with training videos.
But we went through those pretty fast. Then we watched the
medical video. Since then, it's been half hour installments
of various movies, with the exception of an episode of Entourage,
which Michael made us watch six times.
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The
Office: Cocktails
Dwight: Do you watch Battlestar Galactica?
Party Guest: No.
Dwight: No? Then you're an idiot.
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Scrubs:
My Chopped Liver . . . Speaking of TV's love for
TV . . .
TV Announcer
in background: Stay tuned for more Gilmore
girls.
Turk: Mothers and daughters. They speak so fast but they speak
so true.
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The Soup
Enlist in Joel McHale's Navy. Splicing The Hills'
Spencer and Heidi's horror show with The Hills Have Eyes
II is reason enough.
