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Okay, Doug Stauber (Seann William Scott) isn't on the very bottom rung but he's close to it. He has a few people he can boss around but not many. One day, though, he spies an empty lot with a sign promising a new Donaldson's Grocery Store will be opening. At last! His chance to move up and become a manager. His boss even tells him he's a "shoo-in" (or is it shoe-in?) for the job. Heck, with that kind of assurance, Doug decides he and his wife can go ahead and buy that house they've always wanted. But wait... some competition arrives from Donaldson's sister company up in teh Great White North. Richard (John C. Reilly) is a recently arrived Canuck who's got his sights set on that new manager position as well. Now the two men will have to compete for the job.The premise has the potential to be funny and the cast (which also includes Lili Taylor and Jason Bateman) is fully capable of delivering top-notch performances. So how does this film manage to go so terribly wrong? Blame writer-director Steve Conrad. He can't decide if he has a savage satire, a touching drama, or a gross out comedy on his hands. He tries for the droll deadpan of Ricky Gervais'

Anderson Alston served as an Army master sergeant in World War II. Private Frederick Hunter was a soldier from 1968 to 1971. Myron Sanford Mabry was in the Navy from May 1960 to July 1971. All of them died recently in New York City with no one to claim their remains.

Airs Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

The G-20 summit was dominated by Europe's debt crisis and the fear that it could spread. For now, world leaders are hoping that Europe can largely solve the problem on its own.

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Monday, Sept. 16, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The life of Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), a life filled with drama, adversity and triumph, is one of the great stories of the modern era. Despite poverty, childhood rheumatic fever that damaged his heart and an explosion in his youth that cost him his left hand, Orozco persisted in his wish to become an artist.

The Labor Department's use of its toughest enforcement tool has resulted in a court-supervised settlement with coal mine giant Massey Energy, giving the federal court jurisdiction over Massey's Freedom Mine.

Today the city of San Diego rescinded a permit allowing advertisers to paint over a vintage sign on the side of the California Theater in downtown San Diego. A public outcry to save the sign is the reason.

The young composer from Brooklyn battles stereotypes in classical music with her DIY aesthetic, her penchant for blending genres, and her new opera, Song from the Uproar, based on the early 20th-century adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt.

Presidential elections are on the horizon for Venezuela and Pakistan, and with them could come big changes. Venezuelans vote Sunday, their second time at the polls in the last year, and Pakistan's general election will be held on May 11.