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Beck's instinct for theatricality -- a Google image search instantly displays his panoply of hammy faces -- has garnered him lucrative success to a degree the self-serious Sarah Palin or the bombastic Rush Limbaugh could never realize.
Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man Megan Doherty 2010
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Beck's instinct for theatricality -- a Google image search instantly displays his panoply of hammy faces -- has garnered him lucrative success to a degree the self-serious Sarah Palin or the bombastic Rush Limbaugh could never realize.
Megan Doherty: My Walking Tour With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man Megan Doherty 2010
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Presented without commentary, the most absurd, comical, self-serious and/or humorless moments from the pilot episode of "Smash."
Christopher Rosen: 'Smash' Recap: 23 Eyerolls From The Pilot In Chronological Order Christopher Rosen 2012
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Beck's instinct for theatricality -- a Google image search instantly displays his panoply of hammy faces -- has garnered him lucrative success to a degree the self-serious Sarah Palin or the bombastic Rush Limbaugh could never realize.
Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man Megan Doherty 2010
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Presented without commentary, the most absurd, comical, self-serious and/or humorless moments from the pilot episode of "Smash."
Christopher Rosen: 'Smash' Recap: 23 Eyerolls From The Pilot In Chronological Order Christopher Rosen 2012
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Writer/director Joe Carnahan wisely avoids a self-serious tone that would have made a movie about four living action figures unintentionally funny and instead fills “The A-Team” with enough self-awareness and confidence for two movies.
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The brainchild of Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live") and Carrie Brownstein (formerly of the indie band Sleater-Kinney), the show is ostensibly set in Portland, OR, but acts more broadly as a parody/homage to the "self-serious liberal" culture that can be found in many towns.
WATCH: Aubrey Plaza Visits A Lesbian Bookstore On 'Portlandia' The Huffington Post 2011
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The brainchild of Fred Armisen ("Saturday Night Live") and Carrie Brownstein (formerly of the indie band Sleater-Kinney), the show is ostensibly set in Portland, OR, but acts more broadly as a parody/homage to the "self-serious liberal" culture that can be found in many towns.
WATCH: Aubrey Plaza Visits A Lesbian Bookstore On 'Portlandia' The Huffington Post 2011
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Slattery's martini-dry turn as Richardson - as well as Anthony Mackie's doe-eyed performance as a bureau rookie named Harry and the always deliciously malign Terence Stamp as head agent Thompson - injects notes of wry, antic humor into "The Adjustment Bureau," which in less adroit hands could have become a ponderous exercise in self-serious style.
Ann Hornaday reviews 'The Adjustment Bureau,' an ambitious, impressive thriller 2011
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Beck's instinct for theatricality -- a Google image search instantly displays his panoply of hammy faces -- has garnered him lucrative success to a degree the self-serious Sarah Palin or the bombastic Rush Limbaugh could never realize.
Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man Megan Doherty 2010
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