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Last week's Movie Quiz winners

Last week's audio montage clue was from the latest Albert Brooks movie, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, a film that, predictably, I like more than most. To give me my meager due, that's perhaps because I get it more than most of the people who wrote about it, at least in one way: this wasn't Albert's "big statement" movie, but was more his version of Lum and Abner Go to Yugoslavia. I'll explain.

While Albert has proven his acting chops in others movies, most of the time in his own movies, he plays "Himself," or, in this case, literally "Albert Brooks." He's "Albert" the same way his comedy idol was "Jack Benny." And often, when those comedians had movie careers (like Bob "Sepulchre-Breath" Hope), they'd make a film where they went to another country for the predictable culture clash.

In Albert's case, it makes perfect sense-- he can't do romance or yuppies anymore, and he's not quite old enough to start on death exclusively. So he made a small comedy about his character, "Albert," looking like a schmuck in another country for a change.

(By the way, the bucolic radio comedians Lum and Abner made a movie called L&A Abroad, where they did indeed go to Yugoslavia-- really a Hal Roach backlot-- working for the U.S. government!)

So congratulations to the following winners: Vince Tuss, Wayne Palmer, Cate Fogarty, Corey Anderson, Hank Parmer, Bill Hearne, Justin Cullen-Benson, and Jeremy Hodess. And special congratulations to Joe Rosenberg, who wins the new Buddy Guy CD, "Bring 'Em In."

Posted by Steve Monaco at May 21, 2006 9:24 PM

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