By Michael Upchurch Seattle Times Comments Colin Firth plays a bumbling neighbor to a bickering couple in Â"Steve.Â" (Kate Friend / Beat Pictures 2011) Great things can come in small packages â€" and so can humdrum things. "Stars in Shorts" is a program of seven films in the 10- to-25-minute range, the best of which are gems. They showcase not just the acting chops of Colin Firth, Lily Tomlin, Julia Stiles and others, but some fresh writing-directing talents, too. In Robert Festinger's "The Procession," Tomlin and Jesse Tyler Ferguson are a loving but squabbling mother and son, grudgingly attending the funeral of someone they don't know. (Tomlin to Ferguson on why he's lost his way to the...
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