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With Showtime’s breakthrough show peaking at an all-time high (ratings have almost tripled), Weeds showrunner Jenji Kohan took a tip from Talking Heads. At the end of last season, she had Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker), the pot-dealing widow, burn down her suburban house to thwart DEA sleuths.
Gone is the great but grating “Little Boxes” theme song, [...]

Watching Weeds we sometimes wonder, What’s the point? Not of life, but the show: last season’s shoot-’em-ups, Tarantino-esque standoffs, senseless tattoos; even the patently absurd premise, the pot-dealing sweetheart who never gets caught and owns a big house. Is all this just a vehicle for the deliciousness of California domesticity and, more important, the deliciousness [...]

LOS ANGELES - Albert Brooks’ mordant on-screen neuroticism has lifted his films and characters to comedic heights, with “Defending Your Life,” “Lost in America” and his Oscar-nominated turn in “Broadcast News” among the prime examples.
But it’s difficult to find evidence of personal torment during an interview prompted by Brooks’ guest role on the comedy series [...]

(S04E02) The season premiere took us to a new town, and “Lady’s a Charm” gave us a look into Nancy’s future as a drug trafficker. There’s room for improvement, that’s for sure. This week we learned more of the Botwin family history, got a brief and depressing Yiddish lesson, and, for the first time, I [...]

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Albert Brooks’ mordant on-screen neuroticism has lifted his films and characters to comedic heights, with Defending Your Life, Lost in America and his Oscar-nominated turn in Broadcast News, among the prime examples.
But it’s difficult to find evidence of personal torment during an interview prompted by Brooks’ guest role [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Albert Brooks’ mordant on-screen neuroticism has lifted his films and characters to comedic heights, with “Defending Your Life,” “Lost in America” and his Oscar-nominated turn in “Broadcast News” among the prime examples.

Brooks jokes his next film project going to be ’something done 10 years ago.’

But it’s difficult to [...]