Sunday, September 27, 2009

Settling Down, After a Career of Cameos (Jane Lynch)

Arts / Television Settling Down, After a Career of Cameos By ARI KARPEL Published: September 27, 2009 Jane Lynch’s flair for playing authority figures on absurd power trips serves her well on the Fox series “Glee.”

IN the first episode of the Fox series “Glee” there are stirring renditions of classic pop songs (“Don’t Stop Believing”) and funny-but-earnest declarations from angst-ridden high school students. (“Being a part of something special makes you special, right?”)

But the scene that signals that “Glee” would not be yet another sugary “High School Musical” is delivered by a tracksuit-wearing, bullhorn-toting cheerleading coach: “You think this is hard?” she lectures some of her not-up-to-snuff charges. “Try being waterboarded. That’s hard.”

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Source: Thanks to The New York Times

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