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HBO's 'Somebody Somewhere' sings sweetly and sincerely, albeit with its inside voice

The electrifying performer Bridget Everett opts for a lower voltage in this gentle, semi-autobiographical tale of a Kansan woman struggling to overcome grief and find her voice again.
Sam (Bridget Everett) and Joel (Jeff Hiller) bond over student essays in <em>Somebody Somewhere</em>.

It's impossible to watch actor, comedian and singer Bridget Everett in action on a cabaret stage without surrendering to the experience and goggling like a fool. She's hilarious, filthy and so supremely comfortable with her voice, her body and her sheer, scintillating that she casts a spell over the audience. There's also the fact that to watch her in action on the cabaret stage means watching her in action of it — she spends a good deal of her act gleefully prowling the crowd to flirt, accost, challenge, embrace and rebuff audience members, one by

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