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Tom Shales has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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"More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of…
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In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous…
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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the…
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Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals…
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The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently…
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Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate…
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that…
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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a…
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A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.
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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
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In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered…
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In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such…
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I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG.
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In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W.…
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia…
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I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . .…
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Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed,…
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You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
— Donna Mills
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People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that…
— Tom Shales
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If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels,…
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Maybe I have an affinity for Andy Griffith because we both grew up in North Carolina.
— Peyton Reed
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