This event is now full.  What differentiates a great writer from the rest is that artist’s observations about humanity, observations that define us, our little obsessions, that stand up to time and to generations.  Actor, writer and director Albert Brooks continues the conversations he starts in his movies, with his new novel.  A really terrific novel called 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America.  Albert Brooks is the master of the unconventional whose movies are among the best cultural mirrors and social commentaries…

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Everybody Loves Raymond was a phenomenally successful sitcom, and now, in syndication, it is still enormously popular. The growing Russian television industry smelled potential as well, and invited Phil Rosenthal, the show’s wry creator, to come to Russia to discuss adaptation for a Russian audience. Sitcoms cross borders all the time.  Some adaptations succeed abroad, others not so well.  Phil Rosenthal narrates this really funny documentary about taking an essentially American family sitcom to another culture, to a country so hungry for pop culture that…