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With NBC’s wildly popular sitcom, The Office, now in its eighth season, only those living under rocks would deny that what started out as a two season, twelve episode series on the BBC has become one of the most successful sitcom franchises in TV history. The Office has been adapted for TV in France, Brazil and Russia, and last year, Israel also got into the act. HaMisrad (Hebrew for “The Office”) wrapped its first season in November 2010, and a second season is currently in production, but American audiences got a chance to see this hilarious show for the first time when it debuted this past weekend as part of the 5th Annual Other Israel Film Festival (running November 10-17) with a screening at NYC’s Cinema Village Theater on East 12th Street.
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Jack Kevorkian, a true America hero and compassionate human being, has passed away from complications of an underlying disease at the age of 83. “Evidently,” according to the obituary at the previous link, “his suffering never reached a level where he sought a way out, as did the terminally-ill patients he assisted throughout his controversial and storied career.” A few months ago I watched the fantastic HBO bio-pic about Kevorkian, You Don’t Know Jack, which earned Al Pacino an Emmy and a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Kevorkian, and it was SO GOOD! I recommend you add it to your Netflix Queue as soon as possible, as in right now! God speed you, Dr. Kevorkian. God speed you home.
Artist Andy Swist has just created a complete set of fang-tastic PDF sketches featuring the characters of HBO’s True Blood that you can download and print right now to make yourself a whole mess of True Blood Paper Dolls to play with and have imaginary, bloodlust-ridden adventures! All you need is a color LaserJet printer, some heavy paper stock, lightweight cardboard, scissors, glue and your imagination for hours of dead-sexy fun! The downloads are free, but donations are appreciated! Bon Temps for everyone! Continue reading True Blood Paper Dolls!
Have you seen the Tru•Blood marketing campaign yet? The poster above has adorned the side of a bus shelter on Avenue A and 14th Street for about the past month. I was so convinced that this was a real advertisement (I mean, I do live in the East Village, and I actually know a couple of, shall we say, eccentrics who claim to be “Vampires”) that I’ve been asking everyone if they’ve seen this drink in stores.
Continue reading Real Blood Is For Suckers