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Home care for comatose Bubbie in 'Weeds' not a likely scenario
Special to The Times"Weeds": "Mother Thinks the Birds Are After Her" episode; Showtime, June 16. The premise: Having burned down her house, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her family travel to the Mexican border town of Ren Mar, Calif., where they visit Bubbie, the...Tags: Medicine, Health and Safety at School, Television Industry, Medical Staff, Mary-Louise Parker
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Words don't bog down Andrew Stanton's latest film
Sentinel Movie CriticYou can have your comic donkeys and your chop-sockey pandas. Andrew Stanton, who once cast Albert Brooks as a clownfish, isn't having it. "My God, I can't take one more one-liner from an animal," he says. "Why would anybody want to go see another...Tags: Roger Moore, Robin Williams, Pixar
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Words don't bog down Andrew Stanton's latest film
Sentinel Movie CriticYou can have your comic donkeys and your chop-sockey pandas. Andrew Stanton, who once cast Albert Brooks as a clownfish, isn't having it. "My God, I can't take one more one-liner from an animal," he says. "Why would anybody want to go see another...Tags: Roger Moore, Robin Williams, Pixar
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'Weeds'
Times Television CriticWhen "Weeds" premiered on Showtime, it seemed the quintessential suburban satire: Widowed stay-at-home mom accidentally becomes pot dealer and finds her inner gangsta amid the manicured lawns and granite-countered hypocrisy of a Southern California...Tags: Fires, Justin Kirk, Emmy Awards, Starbucks Corporation, Mary-Louise Parker
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Reviews: 'Weeds,' 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl'
verne.gay@newsday.comReason to watch: Fans don't need a reason, but everyone else should know this is the fourth-season launch of TV's most caustic comedy (with a bleaker worldview than Hobbes'). It's also addictive. Meanwhile, Albert Brooks joins the cast. Catching up: In...Tags: Missing in Action, Mary-Louise Parker, Eliot Spitzer, Justin Kirk, Wars and Interventions
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What's The Point Of 'Call Girl'?; 'Weeds' Still Smokin' In Fourth Season
A timely new series set in the world of high-priced hookers, "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" (Showtime, 10:30 p.m.), is a British import starring the appealing Billie Piper, last seen as the assistant to Doctor Who and in PBS's "Mansfield Park." Unlike the...Tags: Jay Leno, Mike Myers, Salman Rushdie, Conan O'Brien, Craig Ferguson
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Albert Brooks' long TV hiatus ends with 'Weeds' guest role
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAFTER more than 30 years, actor, filmmaker and writer Albert Brooks is returning to the small screen. When Showtime's "Weeds" premieres its fourth season on June 16, Brooks will play acerbic gambler Len Botwin, the father-in-law of pot-selling mom...Tags: Lee Majors, The Simpsons, Celebrity, Bodies of Water, Television Industry
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Sly sense of humor in 'Secret Diary,' but 'Weeds' loses potency
Some shows are made for summer viewing, and the lightweight British import "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" (9:30 p.m. Monday, Showtime) is one of them. Don't look here for an in-depth examination of the selling of sex or an investigation of its seedier,...Tags: Mary-Louise Parker
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Maguire Properties may sell some O.C. holdings
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe new chief executive of Southern California landlord Maguire Properties Inc. is today expected to announce plans to sell some buildings -- including an Orange County landmark -- mortgage others and replace some top executives. The major initiatives...Tags: Government, Orange (Orange, California), National Government, Mutual Funds, Irvine
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Taking a gamble
Los Angeles TimesAfter more than 30 years, actor, filmmaker and writer Albert Brooks is returning to the small screen. When Showtime's Weeds premieres its fourth season at 10 tonight, Brooks will play acerbic gambler Len Botwin, the father-in-law of pot-selling mom...Tags: Lee Majors, The Simpsons, Celebrity, Dick van Dyke, Mary-Louise Parker
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