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Kelsey Grammer

'American Carol' is Moore-onic

By Stephen Schaefer Friday, October 3, 2008 - Added 4m ago “An American Carol,” David Zucker’s mirthless conservative rally guised as an update on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale, hits a new low. Zucker espouses not...

Movies starting 10-3-08

Enid Playing at Oakwood Mall Theater ‘Lakeview Terrace’ (PG-13) Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Eva La Rue, Bitsie Tulloch. An ousted CIA official’s memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise...

“An American Carol”: a brief review w/spoilers

The Devil, the proud spirit, cannot endure to be mocked. -- Sir Thomas More I went into "An American Carol" with guarded expectations. While David Zucher immortalized himself with "Airplane!" ("Joey, have you ever seen a grown...

Capsule reviews of current movies

AN AMERICAN CAROL. Starring Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Trace Adkins and James Woods. A cynical, Anti-American "Hollywood" filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the Fourth of July holiday and is visited by three ghosts who...

Right-wing comedy aims for laughs

"An American Carol" belongs in new genre of right-wing comedy Movie stars Kevin Farley as a scruffy Michael Moore clone "Carol" mixes narrative of "A Christmas Carol" with Fox News fodder "The intent is not to make people...

Spoofing him is too easy

David Zucker, director of the classic Airplane, is one of those rare breeds in Hollywood—an out and proud conservative. He decided to use his talent the only way he could: Make a spoof movie of Michael Moore starring such...

Take 10: Will-they won't-theys

Niles and Daphne... will-they/won't-they? Photograph: Channel 4 It was with some sadness this week that we learnt of the end of Pulling on BBC3. Therefore, I thought we'd spend the down-hours of Friday thinking of some of our...

'An American Carol' lampoons the left

It's a movie genre you don't hear much about in Hollywood: the right-wing comedy. But it's exactly what conservative producer-director-screenwriter David Zucker created with "An American Carol." The gag-filled liberal lampoon...

No Frasier movie says Kelsey

Despite recent movie versions of Sex and the City and The X-Files, we won't be seeing a film version of Frasier anytime soon, according to its former star Kelsey Grammer. "I hope not - it's just bound to be a failure," he says....

An American Carol

The Naked Gun," "Scary Movie" 3 and 4). In "An American Carol" a cynical, Anti-American "Hollywood" filmmaker sets out on a crusade to abolish the 4th of July holiday. Posted by: Slevin Kelevra on April 1, 2008 at 13:51:17...