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The Dictator—movie review

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • May 16, 2012 9:59 PM
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As someone who was completely disarmed by 'Borat', then disappointed by' Bruno', I hoped Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy would hit that sweet spot again, especially since he is working with his longtime collaborators, director Larry Charles and writers Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer. I certainly couldn’t have foreseen a film as sloppy and mediocre as this.

link we like: Greetings From Bill

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • September 5, 2011 4:37 AM
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Bill Steinkellner has had a long career in comedy, from the world of improv (with The Groundlings) to Broadway, with stops along the way in mainstream television (Cheers) and even an animated TV series and spinoff feature (Disney’s Teacher’s Pet, a particular favorite of mine). Some years ago he started buying random postcards at flea markets and antique shows and inventing colorful, odd, and offbeat stories to match the images. After entertaining his family with these musings he gathered them into a book, Postcards from the Moon. Now, being a thoroughly modern kind of guy, he posts (no pun intended) his colorful thoughts and—