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Is This the Year for a Giant Shift in Emmy’s Reality Categories?

Over the years, the Emmys have championed several underdogs who truly deserved the hardware — The Wonder Years , Arrested Development , Andre Braugher, Bryan Cranston, Kristin Chenoweth, and my eternal girl Jackee Harry all come to mind — but when it comes to reality television, the committee is stubborn in its devotion to the same staid programming. Even casual statisticians know that the Reality Competition Emmy has gone to The Amazing Race since the award’s inception in 2002, but there’s a point when a winning streak becomes a regime, and Phil Keoghan’s juggernaut surely qualifies by now. Still, a big change may come tomorrow morning with the 2010 Emmy nominees: a shake-up for reality TV and the people who appreciate it.

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Is This the Year for a Giant Shift in Emmy’s Reality Categories?

REVIEW: Brilliant Kids Are All Right Brims with Grace, Smarts and Laughs

Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is such a low-key feat of filmmaking that the scope of its offhanded generosity — toward its characters, its story, its actors and its audience — may not hit you until days after you’ve seen it. The movie finds its greatness in the margins, in the way one character might fumble through a particularly astute yet painful observation, or the way another muses aloud about how much a sperm bank paid him for the very stuff of human life. This is a comedy about what might be considered an alternative family, if only its members didn’t suffer so acutely from the same doubts, temptations, insecurities and longings that people in nearly all families do. The Kids Are All Right is more universal than it is alternative, except in one sense: There’s nothing else on the contemporary movie landscape like it.

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REVIEW: Brilliant Kids Are All Right Brims with Grace, Smarts and Laughs