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Justin Oppelaar - Variety
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Justin Oppelaar - Variety
Justin Oppelaar Title: Music Reporter Email: news@variety.com Based in New York, Justin Oppelaar has reported on the music industry for Variety since June of 2000. He has also covered the media industry from the Wall Street perspective, and the growth of entertainment on the Internet. Prior to
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
For those convinced local TV news long ago graduated from parody to self-parody, pic nevertheless wrings ample laughs from that milieu and the big-haired 1970s. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay generate enough inspired lunacy to provide at times jaw-droppingly bizarre summer fun. Given current appetite
Anchorwoman
Breaking news: The left hand at Fox apparently doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson TV Show Review
Hollywood gets gently goosed in The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, an always amusing, occasionally very funny mockumentary in which a Brit TV crew tries to dredge up the truth about an English movie producer who's gone AWOL.
Abc's Saturday Night at the Movies the Barefoot Executive TV Show Review
Filmed in Los Angeles by ZM Prods. in association with Walt Disney Television. Executive producers, George Zaloom, Les Mayfield, Scott Immergut; producers, Joan Van Horn, Irwin Marcus; director, Susan Seidelman; writers, Tracy Newman, Jonathan Stark, Tim Doyle, based on the feature screenplay by
Girls' Night Out TV Show Review
Comics: Casey Fraser, Sheila Kay, Chris Rich, Linda Smith, Lisa Gaye Tremblay.
Naked News the Anchors; Talk Radio; The Tabloid TV Show Review
Cronkite regrets the necessity of pandering to public interest, as in the O.J. Simpson miniseries, and the advent of action news. (You must have action in the first 12 seconds, it doesn't mater what the action is.)
The Barefoot Executive Movie Review
This remake of the 1970 Disney feature doesn't showcase a barrel of monkeys but rather a barrel of boobs, as in TV execs scrambling to pick winners. A trio of writers have sharpened the material into a wicked parody of the TV biz, and director Susan Seidelman (Smithereens,Desperately Seeking Susan)
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