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	My Big Fat Greek Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I saw the second because I told my married daughter to see this abomination, and I wanted to discuss the shortcomings with her.
		My Big Fat Greek Restaurant recently opened near ASU, and I wouldn't be surprised if they've popped up elsewhere around the country.
		My first problem with this show was I attempted to watch it without seeing the movie first.
	www.jumptheshark.com /m/mybigfatgreeklife.htm (4955 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - My Big Fat Greek Life: The Complete Series
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding, some kind of follow-up was a certainty.
		The latter was the route chosen and My Big Fat Greek Life was born.
		My Favorite Year) are hilarious as her parents and often steal the show.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/bigfatgreeklife.php (1327 words)

	Crimson Celluloid :: Resident DVDvil :: My Big Fat Greek Life
		In the original film, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) was the plain, 30-year-old single daughter of Greek immigrants who expected her to “marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die,” to make the family proud.
		“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, which was made for 5 million dollars, became the sleeper hit of 2002 and went on to gross over 185 million dollars in the theatres.
		“My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was based on a one-woman stage show written by the movie’s star, Nia Vardalos, who used to be with Second City.
	www.lethaldeath.com /Crimson/Archives/ResidentDVDvil/Archives/RD_BigFatGreekLife.php (654 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Greek Orthodox. by Noy Thrupkaew. February 25, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding was a big fat fairy tale, and the way it got made was just Disney dreamy.
		Life picks up where the film was winding down: The newlyweds, named Nia and Thomas instead of Wedding's Toula and Ian, have returned home only to discover that overbearing Papa has purchased them a house.
		After being told that her face was too fat and losing creative control over the sitcom, Cho spiraled into years of drug abuse and eating disorders.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/02/thrupkaew-n-02-25.html (1072 words)

	My Big Fat Geek Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Second, if my memory serves me correct, the bimbo holding the contest and half of the people commenting are all people who either ditched AOL or had some of the worse things to say about AOL when the whole journal ad thing went down.
		I decided to play this song in honor of all those misleading 70's shows in which all their life traumas happened over the course of a half hour and in the end they would sing a song and all their problems would be solved.
		Depending on my ability to bullshit people into buying something is something that scares the shit outta me. I'm sorta putting all my eggs in one basket with this but you know me, I'm not happy unless I'm stressing over my life and how I can fuck it up.
	journals.aol.com /njlittlebear/MyBigFatGeekLife (3078 words)

	Thursday
		But not even Socrates himself could explain the staying power of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which might still be running in some shape or form long after the Acropolis is paved over for a parking lot.
		The series picks up from where the movie left off: An ugly-duckling woman ("Greek" creator Nia Vardalos) becomes a swan when she is swept off her feet by a man who isn't Greek, to the dismay of her tradition-minded parents.
		Not only has "Greek" been modeled on it, but the relationship-under-siege element is apparent on plenty of the network's sitcoms ("King of Queens," "Still Standing," "Yes, Dear").
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2003/mar03/mar03/4_thurs/news3thursday.html (600 words)

	Big Fat Greek Movie Success. - The Carroll Boards
		The Greek dad, for example, is a blustering, controlling head of the household, but is loved even by the women he orders around.
		The union of this Greek family with a non-Greek outsider, which ends with the most joyous wedding imaginable, stands as a symbol of peace and hope for us all in a time when optimism is in short supply.
		For all these reasons, I’m glad to add my name to those who loved “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” It is likely to receive a few Oscar nominations, because Hollywood oh-so-much wants to embrace its success.
	www.carroll.edu /boards/showthread.php?t=656 (1260 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Life hits the box - theage.com.au
		As box office returns continue to pour in for My Big Fat Greek Wedding, executives from United States television network CBS are updating their original plans for an underdog, midseason replacement bought last year from a comedian who was hoping to get a movie version of the show distributed.
		CBS shot the pilot of My Big Fat Greek Family in March - after the film had been made but before it was released - starring the funny woman, Nia Vardalos.
		The title has been changed to My Big Fat Greek Life and every cast member from the movie, except for John Corbett, who played the WASPy boyfriend, has agreed to appear in the TV show.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/12/19/1040174333063.html (482 words)

	A Big Fat 1/2-inch format: HDCAM for sitcoms? For My Big Fat Greek Life it takes longer to edit all the extra footage, ...
		BURBANK -- The challenge for the producers of CBS's My Big Fat Greek Life is to catch lightning in a bottle a second time.
		The original product, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, was a mega-hit, the largest grossing independent film ever, and was produced on a low, low budget by Hollywood standards.
		Greek Life is a four-camera shoot before a live audience with two Sony/Panavision 24p cameras on dollies and two on pedestals.
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	USATODAY.com - Nia Vardalos builds 'Big Fat Greek' franchise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But the mood changed when her $5 million film, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, became the year's surprise hit and grossed more than $240 million.
		Inspired by her family and her husband, actor Ian Gomez, her piece grew into a screenplay and a one-woman show, produced with the simple goal of trying to attract a better agent.
		After Rita Wilson, an actress of Greek heritage, saw the show, she and her husband, Tom Hanks, shepherded the story onto the big screen.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-02-23-greek-life_x.htm (838 words)

	Thursday
		When “My Big Fat Greek Life” premiered Monday night to smash ratings on CBS, it should have come as little surprise.
		The movie on which it was based, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," was the surprise box office hit of 2002.
		Small-screen adaptations of big screen smashes are a time-honored tradition in network television, with good reason: they provide movie studios with another opportunity to squeeze even more money out of box-office cash cows.
	www.medialifemagazine.com /news2003/feb03/feb24/4_thurs/news4thursday.html (786 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: My Big Fat Greek Wedding [2002]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a charming film about a less than perfect, everyday women(called Toula Portokalos played by Nia Vardalos) who is surrounded by the new youth and mordern city of Chicargo, America.
		But her VERY Greek family try to hide her away from it all.as quoted in the film by toulas father costas " there are two types of people in this world, Greeks and everybody else who wishes they were Greek!" Toula falls in love with an non-greek.
		The script was poor, the actors playing the Greek family were poor, mainly through misdirection and script as opposed to their acting abilities to be fair, and the whole film dragged....whole tens of minutes went by between funny moment...that to me is not a comedy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006LA79 (1433 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Wedding: The Fan Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Yes, CBS is working on a tv show for My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
		"Greek Life" will make a few changes from the movie, mostly in the name of "hipping the show up," star and creator Nia Vardalos says.
		The show will pick up after the wedding in the movie and tell the story of Nia and Thomas' new life as a couple and their dealings with Nia's family.
	www.freewebs.com /greekwedding/tv.html (316 words)

	My big fat Greek life story - theage.com.au
		In that weird twilight of pre-pubescence, there was young Adam, walking down the main street to the Town Hall in the flimsy skirt, vest and red cap of 19th century Greece.
		He will get into character of himself at different ages, but is looking forward to going with the vibe of each performance or, as he puts it, "leaving a little room for it to breathe, just see how it goes".
		Despite The Paragon being marketed as "a twisted take on My Big Fat Greek Life", Hatzimanolis says it is not stereotypical wog humour, but more idiosyncratic; true to life for a migrant's son who grew up in Wollongong, with "a touch of poetic licence".
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/05/05/1051987640915.html (707 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Life: My Big Fat Greek Wedding - TV.com
		Vowing that she'd rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change.
		After taking a job at her aunt's travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller, a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek.
		Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives, and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church their big fat Greek wedding will be a piece of cake.
	www.tv.com /my-big-fat-greek-life/my-big-fat-greek-wedding/episode/196834/summary.html (486 words)

	CNN.com - 'Big Fat Greek Life' is big for CBS - Feb. 26, 2003
		'Big Fat Greek Life' is big for CBS
		The TV series adaptation of the hit movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" drew robust ratings for its premiere Monday night on CBS.
		The renamed "My Big Fat Greek Life" not only won its time slot in a special airing at 9:30 p.m.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/26/tv.bigfatratings.ap/index.html (276 words)

	Listen To Me - My Big Fat Greek Wedding
		This is a movie all about a fat, ugly Greek girl who - when she finds a guy she likes - puts some makeup on, takes off her glasses, lets her hair down and breaks away from serving food at her dad's cafe.
		Their insults about the Greek way of living are intended as a funny culture clash, but instead just come across as unfunny and embarrassing.
		The end scene is the big fat Greek wedding in question, before the whole thing ends with a perfect premise for a sequel.
	www.listentome.net /movies105.php (633 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - 'Big Fat Greek Life' doesn't live up to hit film
		But for all that, "My Big Fat Greek Life" isn't the treat many of us hoped it would be.
		Those of us who loved the movie for its convincing doses of humor drawn from real life were excited at the prospect of seeing it return each week as a sitcom.
		That brings us back to "My Big Fat Greek Life," which managed to bring us all of the original cast but John Corbett, who played the somewhat stodgy suitor who married Nia and her family in the movie.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2003/032003/03232003/913075/index_html (1083 words)

	Nia Vardalos \| My Big Fat Greek Life \| tv : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		As a TV series, ''My Big Fat Greek Life'' premiered on Feb. 24 post-''Everybody Loves Raymond'' to the highest ratings of a network debut in five years.
		Nonetheless, ''Greek Life'' is a big fat bore.
		She made that remark while watching a Greek women's-soccer game on TV in the restaurant owned by her father (nicely gruff Michael Constantine) and her brother (excessively clueless Louis Mandylor).
	www.ew.com /ew/article/commentary/0,6115,428357~3~0~whytvsgreeklife,00.html (663 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Greek Life' lands 22.9M viewers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		My Big Fat Greek Life was a big fat hit Monday, TV's most-watched comedy premiere since 1998.
		The sitcom — based on the smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding and starring most of the film's original cast — averaged 22.9 million viewers, the best showing since NBC's Jesse bowed behind Friends in September 1998.
		Greek not only gained more viewers from its lead-in, top CBS comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, but its performance also outdistanced the final "aftermath" of Fox's Joe Millionaire, which clocked in Monday with 19.5 million romance-obsessed fans.
	www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-02-25-greek-life_x.htm (412 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Life - Delta Goodrem's Official Forum
		My Big Fat Greek Life - Delta Goodrem's Official Forum
		and my fren said it was the same guy, and i SWORE to her that it's a diff.
		i was a little disappointed by greek life though, not as funny as i liked, but hey, gia carides is in it, she's aussie and she rocks.
	forums.deltagoodrem.com /index.php?showtopic=8919 (697 words)

	'Big Fat Greek Life' to debut Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Find Articles
		HOLLYWOOD -- To call "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" the biggest box- office surprise of the century is no exaggeration.
		Except that this very specific story of a woman from a large, boisterous, Greek-American family who fell in love with and married a non-Greek guy struck a chord with a lot of people of all ethnic backgrounds.
		In the wake of the film's success, its release on DVD this past week and an Oscar nomination for Vardalos' script, the story is about to continue.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_200302/ai_n11378232 (444 words)

	'Big Fat Greek' cast easily moves to TV / Actors already feel like one big family as they start new series on CBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Now, $240 million and one Oscar nomination later, nearly all the original cast members of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" have reunited for a TV spin-off.
		My character in this show is named Nia because I wanted to play someone closer to who I am now in my life.
		Though Vardalos got the "Big Fat" ball rolling with a one-woman show, she's attuned to ensemble-driven humor because of her training at Chicago's Second City improv troupe.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/23/PK197067.DTL (873 words)

	His big fat Greek life change
		Better, he's achieved that weight loss without surgery, although he is the first to underscore that his unusual regimen - a combination of attending baseball games and using liquid protein diets during a one-year sabbatical from his professional life - is not appropriate for most.
		As both a physician and a former extremely obese person, Yphantides says he is uniquely qualified to provide counsel on the challenges of successful weight loss.
		"The busier life got, the more stressed, the more pressure I had, the more I resorted to food." During his year of weight loss and reflection, Yphantides realized that he didn't need food to be happy.
	www.azcentral.com /health/diet/articles/0929health-eatright29-ON.html (1072 words)

	A Big Fat Greek TV Hit?, CBS Series 'My Big Fat Greek Life' Will Debut Next Month - CBS News
		The movie, which received a People's Choice Award on Sunday for best comedy film and is a Golden Globe nominee, is the basis of the CBS series "My Big Fat Greek Life," debuting next month.
		When you're in a living room, surrounded by 2003 appliances and your 2003 wife," a show has to be more accessible, she said.
		Vardalos starred in the romantic comedy as Toula, a single woman whose Greek-American family is appalled when she falls for a guy who isn't Greek.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/01/13/entertainment/main536354.shtml (664 words)

	KIESEWETTER: 'Greek Life' hopes for fat ratings
		Toula was like an extension of who I was during my kind of `finding myself' period," she says.
		My parents live in 2003, but they still have values that they came over with from Greece in 1950.
		No consideration was given to filming the sitcom without an audience, says CBS president Les Moonves, who bought a Big Fat TV pilot before the movie opened last year.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/02/23/tem_kiese23.html (983 words)

	My Big Fat Greek Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		MY BIG FAT GREEK LIFE is a comedy series about a woman's over-the-top Greek family.
		But when she falls in love and marries a non-Greek teacher, Thomas Miller (Steven Eckholdt), her family eventually learns to accept him and Nia learns to accept her family's meddlesome ways.
		Nia and Thomas return from their honeymoon to begin their new life together and find that it will include her overzealous extended family.
	www.sonypictures.com /tv/shows/spt/emmy/greek_emmy.html (106 words)

	DVD Talk Review: My Big Fat Greek Life: Entire Series
		The show was based on the smash hit, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, starring writer/actress Nia Vardalos as a young gal who's looking to get out from under the confining traditional role her Greek culture (via her family) puts her in.
		To her family, her goal in life is to meet a Greek guy, marry him, and have a bunch of kids.
		Episode Seven: Greek Easter: April 13, 2003: Nia begs and pleads to prepare the Easter feast for the extended family, something none of them wants to let her do.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=8401 (1330 words)

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