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Tom Green is a guilty, hazardous-to-the-health pleasure, much like Easy Cheese, WWF SmackDown!, and casseroles topped with crushed potato chips. A random white Canadian guy, Green made a TV career for himself by playing pranks on unsuspecting citizens and embarrassing himself in public. What is amazing is that he got paid to do this for […]

President Bush showed up empty-handed in Mexico last week, having failed to fulfill last year’s promise to President Vicente Fox that the United States would work toward less punitive treatment of Mexican immigrants. It wasn’t for lack of trying. Despite pressuring lawmakers to permit certain illegal immigrants to remain in the United States while applying […]

The creators of the insanely plotted Fox show 24 threw bedraggled viewers a bone recently — a March 12 episode that relied more on dramatic heft than frenetic pace. It was a welcome turnabout: Keeping track of the kidnappings, murders, and split-screen multiple story lines that make up “the longest day” in counterterrorism agent Jack […]

This week the world of boxing sank to new lows: The city of Washington, D.C., granted the squeaky-voiced pugilist Mike Tyson a license to fight, and Fox aired Celebrity Boxing, featuring Tonya Harding v. Paula Jones. There’s a depressing logic in the connection between the two events. After all, if Tyson — a convicted rapist […]

America, you know Bernie Mac. You might remember him from Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. He was the guy who made you squirm with his talk about America being too scared to give an angry black man a TV show. He riffed on the nieces and nephew he took in after his sister […]

Every season of CBS’s Survivor has to open with a barf shot, and this season was no exception. The spew-scene came before the first commercial break last Thursday night. On a turbulent three hour boat ride to the show’s latest extreme landscape, a faceless female character propelled lots of white frothy stuff into a black […]

For those of you tired of the spandexed, Apollonian beauty of Olympic bodies, TV had a special treat Thursday night — FOX’s The Glutton Bowl: The World’s Greatest Eating Competition. As the teeny ladies of ice skating were warming up, thirty-four athletes of a different sort were smacking their bellies and glowering at each other, […]

With last weekend’s ending to the bonus season of Sex and the City, HBO drew the curtain over a proverbial third act for its heroines. Once viewed as a frothy brew of so-fashionable-they’re-hideous outfits and quips about a parade of stank-breathed, ball-scratching “toxic bachelors,” the show got serious this season, pitching its characters into mid-drama […]

While abortion is perceived by our society as being an acceptable option to giving birth, most women, at some deep level of their being, realize that abortion is an act against nature, and must “shut down” any maternal instincts they may have in order to carry through with an abortion. After the abortion is over, […]