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National Features >
City Pages
Being Tron Guy
Meet the man inside the glowing Spandex unitard, who refuses to be a "geek pinata."
By Ben Palosaari
Miami New Times
Taps
Sensing the end of an era, bottled-water companies spend billions to keep an eco-unfriendly industry alive.
By Lee Klein
Village Voice
John Steinbeck's Ghosts
A man fascinated by a violent 1930s strike solves a mystery with the help of a mobster's musician.
By Tony Ortega
What Garry Didn't Know
Not Just the Best
of the Larry Sanders Show
(Sony)
The greatest boxed set ever -- not so much for the made-up irritainment as for the real thing, which this collection serves up by the ton. There are 23 brilliant episodes of the
By Jim Ridley, Robert Wilonsky, Jordan Harper
Published on April 18, 2007
Not Just the Best
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Shandling loathes himself like never before.
Subject(s):
The Larry Sanders Show, Smokin' Aces, The Last King of Scotland, Overlord(Sony)
The greatest boxed set ever -- not so much for the made-up irritainment as for the real thing, which this collection serves up by the ton. There are 23 brilliant episodes of the HBO show here, but they pale in comparison to the eight hours of teeth-gnashing and self-loathing that fill in the blanks, as Garry Shandling gets former guests and colleagues to lay him on the therapist's couch. Key Moment No. 1: Writer-producer Judd Apatow tells Shandling he still wants to punch him over a joke excised more than a decade ago. Key Moment No. 2: Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn join Shandling for the kind of intimate conversation Tambor says they never once had during the show's run. Key Moment No. 3: Shandling asks Jon Stewart how he made the "right" decisions, when it's clear Shandling thinks he made the wrong ones. Key Moment No. 4: Everything else. -- Robert Wilonsky
Smokin' Aces
(Universal)With its bullet-riddled plot and smirkin' aces cast (Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Alicia Keys, Andy Garcia, and Jeremy Piven as the small-time thug they're all looking to off), Joe Carnahan's movie plays like an oily, time-killing, made-for-Showtime version of Ocean's Eleven, sans the class or cleverness. Piven, ratcheting up his Entourage shtick with week-old stubble and a Vegas suite full of hookers, doesn't even seem to be having fun. Only Jason Bateman, in a few seconds of screen time, gets the joke -- which is to say, only he finds it buried beneath the skank and stank. As for the extras: The alternate ending's ridiculous, the deleted scenes are superfluous, and Ben Affleck can't shoot pool for shit. -- Wilonsky
The Last King of Scotland
(Fox)
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