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BY FRANK LOVECE
Special to Newsday
I
t probably started with Jack
Benny in the 1950s, hit big
with Seinfeld in the 90s
and now continues with
shows like FXs Louie and
HBOs Crashing semiauto-
biographical series about come-
dians. The latest: George
Lopezs TV Land comedy,
Lopez, in which the 55-year-
old Californian, one of the first
major Mexican-American
stand-ups, plays a version of
his successful self.
In real life, hes bringing that
successful self to the NYCB
Theatre at Westbury tomor-
row. In his fictional life,
Lopez season 2 (Wednes-
days, 10:30 p.m.) finds him
continuing to deal with his dim
but bighearted childhood
friend and now chauffeur,
Manolo (Anthony Citric
Campos); his young agent,
Olivia Olly Michaels (Hayley
Huntley), and various others
who vex and inspire George as
he tries to expand his career by
launching a network drama
series in which he would star
as a gritty ex-cop.
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AVATAR 2 IN MOTION | Citizen Jane takes on Robert Moses
WHO Sigourney Weaver
THE MOVIE Avatar 2
THE DEAL The actress says
production on the sequel to James
Camerons 2009 hit Avatar will
begin this fall, according to The
Hollywood Reporter. Were starting
training, said Weaver, who at-
tended a Monday night
screening of Walter Hills
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transgender action film The
Assignment in Manhat-
tan. And were starting
hmmm, I probably cant
say anything. We will be
actually shooting it by
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the fall. Weaver
called Camerons
scripts for his multiple
Avatar sequels
amazing and added,
Theyre well worth
waiting for.
Training has begun for
the Avatar sequel,
Sigourney Weaver says.
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been there for probably seven
years now. But before that I was WHO George Lopez
with an Olly, a guy who was a WHEN | WHERE Tomorrow
little bit older who I thought had night at 8, NYCB Theatre at
game and then I realized he Westbury
didnt. Things that were coming TICKETS $49.50-$99.50
in were not being delivered to INFO livenation.com
me he was almost batting
offers down. It wasnt until I
started to go out and somebody Dude, you gonna pass it?
would say, Hey, we tried to find And hed say no and then he
you for [the 2002 animated passed it. Everywhere we
feature] Ice Age and we called went. He passed it. You know
your manager, but he never where it is? Yes. Youre not
called back, that I realized I had gonna pass it? Im not gonna
a problem. pass it. He passed it.
How about a real-life Manolo? Theres been a lot of anti-Mexican
There was a guy Id known political rhetoric over the past
for, like, 20 years who drove several months. How has that
me around, who got fired been affecting you?
because I just couldnt take the Its a form of political bully-
conversations anymore. He ing. People who are undocu-
tried to help out and then I mented in this country come
realized that, man, these rides from all over the world, not
in the car are depressing! The just Mexico, but somehow we
TV LAND
problems this dude had! I was have become the Kleenex. You
like, Man, you should have know, when someone wants to
Comedian George Lopez takes time out from his TV Land sitcom, figured that [stuff] out a long say, Give me a tissue, they
Lopez, to play the NYCB Theatre at Westbury. time ago! And everywhere he say, Give me a Kleenex. Of all
drove us, he passed [the loca- the undocumented, were
So this season, George leaves his her time to his career. Did you tion] at least once. Everywhere looked at as the bad people. All
big management company and ever have a real-life Olly? we went. He never stopped of that stuff is really hurtful
agrees to keep on as young Ollys Im with [the big management right at the right place. I would and detrimental and not what
sole client, so she can devote all company] Three Arts and Ive get in the car and Id go, this country is really about.
By Rafer Guzmn
rafer.guzman@newsday.com
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THE MOVIE Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point
THE DEAL Assemb. Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) will host a
screening of a one-hour film about the American health care system
INVISION / JOHN SHEARER
directed by businessman-turned-filmmaker Richard Master. The
documentary makes a case for single-payer health care, in which
citizens pay taxes to cover the costs for all.
INFO Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave.,
Huntington. Tickets are $12; call 631-423-7611 or go to
cinemaartscentre.org
Film composer Hans Zimmer
THE MOVIE Citizen Jane comes to Radio City in July.
THE DEAL Matt Tyrnauers docu-
mentary recounts the battle between WHO Hans Zimmer
Robert Moses, the legendary urban WHEN | WHERE July 25-26,
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
planner who in the 1960s tried to Radio City Music Hall,
raze sections of New York Citys Manhattan
most vibrant neighborhoods INFO $56-$176; beginning 10 a.m.
including Greenwich Village and tomorrow; 800-745-3000,
SoHo and Jane Jacobs, the self- ticketmaster.com
educated author-activist who led a
grassroots campaign to stop him. Jane Jacobs fought Robert WHO Lifehouse & Switchfoot
Variety called the movie a visual Moses plans in the 1960s. WHEN | WHERE Aug. 12, Ford
hymn to the streets of New York. It Amphitheater at Coney Island
plays locally next week as part of the Elliman Film Series. Boardwalk, Brooklyn
INFO Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Squire Cinemas, 115 Middle Neck INFO $29.50-$59.50; beginning
Rd., Great Neck. Tickets are $15-$20; call 516-829-2570 or go to 10 a.m. tomorrow; 800-745-3000,
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