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“Guys have underestimated me my entire life”: Like the man himself, TED LASSO is easy to overlook but has surprising depth

  Be curious, not judgmental. -Walt Whitman   You got no time for the messenger Got no regard for the thing that you don’t understand You got no fear of the underdog That’s why you will not survive -Spoon, “The Underdog”   Ted Lasso might have seemed like an odd choice for a property to […]

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BORAT 2 justifies its existence by putting a new spin on an old formula

  (A handful of spoilers follow.)   My love for Sacha Baron Cohen’s in-character mockumentaries, and how they so often reveal the true heart of America, is well-documented. Rumors of a new Borat project began to surface earlier in the year with reported sightings of Baron Cohen’s Kazakhstani journalist character in L.A.; the film was finally announced […]

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Cocteau Twins, TREASURE

  A reviewer once wrote that Elisabeth Fraser sang “with the voice of God,” and I’m not sure you need to know much more about the Cocteau Twins than that.   But I’ll tell you anyway: The Scottish band was formed in 1979 by Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie, although they didn’t really take off […]