“Arrested Development” has also always been famous for its ridiculous number of guest stars, many of whom anyone with decent pop culture knowledge would recognize. Liza Minnelli, Henry Winkler, Judy Greer, Ben Stiller, Mae Whitman, and Andy Richter all return in season four to portray their respective characters; those six aren’t even the full representation of actors to appear in the new 15 episodes. Those new to the guest star list this season include (but are certainly not limited to) Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig as young George Sr. and Lucille, Old Spice guy Terry Crews as an adulterous congressional candidate, the stars of Comedy Central’s “Workaholics” as rude airport employees, and even Max Winkler as a younger version of his father’s Barry Zuckerkorn character. Conan O’Brien, “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer, Los Angeles news anchor John Beard, and Ron Howard – who also serves as the show’s narrator – all appear as themselves in the series as well.
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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