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EXPORTING RAYMOND
June 19, 2012  | By David Bianculli

HBO Signature, 7:30 p.m. ET

 

I’ve become addicted to this 2010 documentary, watching and enjoying it each time it’s televised. Phil Rosenthal pulls off the very difficult trick of directing a documentary in which he is both subject and narrator – yet without making himself look too good or his film too self-absorbed. It’s the story of the effort to take the sitcom he created with Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond, and help produce a version tailored specifically by and for Russian television. What does and doesn’t get lost in the translation is hilarious – and immensely entertaining, as is Rosenthal’s dry-as-sawdust commentary.

 
 
 
 
 
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