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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936740943
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MPN: DISD55117D
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Running Time: 607 minutes
Studio: Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/02/2008
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Hot-wired into the tabloid zeitgeist, Dirt is good, lurid fun. Courteney Cox, in a bold departure from Monica on Friends, stars as Lucy Spiller, editor of Dirt magazine. Relentless, high-strung Lucy is part Ben Bradlee and part Bonnie Fuller. She's a stickler for journalistic integrity with a basic instinct for the scandalous "get." "There's actual reporting in what we do," she rallies her reporters. "The only defense we have is the truth." Lucy is saddled with a clichéd personal life (abandonment issues, intimacy issues, blah, blah, blah). She is way more fun to watch at work when she's blackmailing celebs to deliver scoops by threatening to reveal their sexual peccadilloes, stun-gunning one-night-stands, or betraying a loved one to score an exclusive, career-wrecking cover story. Her go-to photographer and best friend is Don Konkey (Ian Hart, an uncanny John Lennon in Backbeat and The Hours and Times) a functioning schizophrenic prone to hallucinations, but who will do anything for Lucy, even sever his own finger to gain admittance to a hospital where an unblemished Christian pop star is being mysteriously kept under wraps. Konkey is the voice and heart of Dirt. His introductory episode recaps are a highlight ("No offense, but you should be up on this by now," he states in episode 7). Waiting in the wings on Lucy's staff is Willa (Alex Breckenridge), young, green, and hungry. She becomes a much more provocative presence as she joins the dark side as the season progresses.
Dirt could use sharper writing, but it's savvy enough when it comes to parsing Hollywood-speak. A celebrity's so-called "exhaustion" is translated by Lucy to mean "rehab or a psychotic break." Dirt drops A-list names (Clooney, Britney), but for a series set in Hollywood, it's light on actual celebrities (director David Fincher and a self-deprecating Christopher Knight and Adrienne Curry appear as themselves). Instead, we get unconvincing fictional celebrities such as wash-out actor Holt McLaren (Josh Stewart), who gets his shot at superstardom by making the same kind of pact with Lucy that John Cassavetes made with the coven in Rosemary's Baby. Just one scoop begins a downward spiral for his sitcom-actress girlfriend (Laura Allen) and her best friend, an actress with an ill-timed pregnancy (Shannyn Sossamon). Also getting down and dirty are Rick Fox as a compromised basketball superstar, Wayne Brady as a cultured thug, and, in the season finale, Jennifer Aniston as Lucy's rival (and then some, although their much-hyped onscreen kiss is really much ado about nothing). An FX series, Dirt shovels on the network's envelope-pushing profane language and graphic sex scenes. It should clean up on DVD. --Donald Liebenson
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show! Sadly, it gets in line with 2 other big favourites of mine, that didnt' t catch a broader viewing audience: Action (Jay Mohr) and The Job (Denis Leary).
Best work Coxy has ever done, hope the show creator (his name escapes me) keeps working!!!
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Courtney Cox is well Courtney Cox and a quite a bit better than in "Friends".
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When I first heard of this show coming out I immediately thought of it probably not being all that okay, but gave it a try since it is on FX, which has some real good shows.
And it delivered. The show revolves around the editor (Cox) of a "trash" magazine who will stop at nothing to ensure that she can get the goods on people. It is well written, insightful as to some of the craziness in Hollywood and this form of "news" and has some other people that turn in nice performances, such ... Read More
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I was not sure what to think when I bought this season, but I had heard that it was good from a friend. Courtney Cox is fantastic as a character in charge of a half-dirty tabloid, half-entertainment news type of magazine. She is constantly battling with celebrities to get new "dirt" that no other magazine has, and is very good at playing the politics needed to make it in the business.
There is plenty of sexual inuendo (and more) for those looking for that, and great relationships between ... Read More
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Courtney Cox is pretty convincing as Lucy Spiller the conniving managing editor of Dirt magazine. Frankly, it's a juicier role than that of Monica on Friends. But for all it's glitz, there's nothing really exciting about the series. Big stars, feeding big ego's and hiding big secrets trying to outwit the press at every step of the way. What's new about that? In the end, even though the writing is great, the premise is old. It's still all about stars and their crazy care free lives.
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