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Post by amy on Aug 10, 2006 17:54:01 GMT -5
Seriously, are there ANY tv shows in the US with regular characters who are disabled? The only one I can think of is the Family Guy!!
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Post by devogirl on Aug 15, 2006 23:07:44 GMT -5
I wasn't watching it, but apparently the guy who won on the NBC reality show Last Comic Standing is CP'er Josh Blue. Info and a clip here: www.nbc.com/Last_Comic_Standing/comics/josh_blue.shtmlI heard an interview with him on NPR, and since winning he gets a bunch of contracts, not just doing standup, but apparently NBC is considering letting him star in his own sitcom. Here's hoping they actually do a decent job, and it's not a diversity fiasco like Margaret Cho's "American Girl." You can hear the interview here, it's quite entertaining: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5645410 |
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Post by devogirl on Aug 24, 2006 21:36:03 GMT -5
I was flipping the channels last night and ran across a really stupid movie called "Out Cold" which seemed to be a comedy about some ski bums. One of the main dude's buddies was a para, but the film was so awful I couldn't watch more than 5 minutes to see if the para buddy ever did anything besides sit in the background. Has anyone seen this?
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Post by Triassic on Aug 25, 2006 0:07:04 GMT -5
I just saw 'Dodgeball'; not a great film by any means, though Ben Stiller is funny.
What is remarkable about it is that a major character(an older man, admittedly) uses a powerchair and it's never even mentioned by anyone. He's just another person.
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Post by fabie on Aug 26, 2006 12:04:06 GMT -5
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Post by Pisti on Aug 26, 2006 14:52:43 GMT -5
Yep - and I don't like it...  It is actually worst - I bought it on a DVD, shipped to me from Germany and after that I found out I didn't like it...  |
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Post by wheelie37 on Sept 7, 2006 13:32:20 GMT -5
there is a new tv comedy series starting soon here in the uk called " i,m with stupid" which looks quite good, loads of real wheelers too  |
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Post by V on Sept 7, 2006 15:10:38 GMT -5
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Post by spurs2000 on Sept 7, 2006 16:30:04 GMT -5
cool link V Not overly impressed but worth a view. |
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Post by spurs2000 on Sept 7, 2006 16:39:07 GMT -5
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Post by ungavaguest on Sept 11, 2006 7:05:00 GMT -5
I've seen OUtcold...it is stupid but we see him 3-4 times in the movie. NOT a major role for the guy though
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Post by wheelie37 on Sept 14, 2006 3:47:18 GMT -5
what do people think of "i,m with stupid" ? |
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Post by devogirl on Oct 30, 2006 22:30:09 GMT -5
So I was watching TV this evening and I just caught a few minutes of Friday Night Lights. Now ordinarily Devo Girl would not be interested in a show about high school football in Texas, but in one of the many sub-plots, the star quarterback was paralyzed. On the downside, his girlfriend is already cheating on him. But on the devo-liscious side, rather than going on and on in a maudlin vein about cures, right away they take him to a quad rugby game, it looked like the real Texas team. And the other guys in rehab seem to be real quads (unlike the pretty boy actor who is of course faking it). It's just a few minutes out of an hour show, but the show is pretty good, better than the average TV drama. Seems like proof right here that Murderball has already changed popular images of disabled people. So has anyone else been watching this show? You can watch the whole thing online at the NBC website.
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Post by diveguy99 on Oct 31, 2006 16:44:00 GMT -5
Any one remember from the 70's the show Cannon. The detetive guy in a chair? It was a long time ago, do I have it right.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2006 17:15:14 GMT -5
LOL I dont think Cannon was in a chair...I just think his gut hung lower then his legs.
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