Good TV This Week: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Returns to the Tube
Click here to view the embedded video. Once you see Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ new HBO “Veep” black comedy, it’s a little unsettling to think that, as reported in the New York Times, she talked to the likes...
View ArticleGood TV This Week: ‘The Newsroom’s’ Mixed Reactions
Click here to view the embedded video. After viewing the pilot and several subsequent episodes, I found Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom” to be full of brilliance — inspiring, funny and wonderfully acted....
View ArticleLaura Dern’s ‘Enlightened’ Takes on Goliath in Season 2
Click here to view the embedded video. If you have yet to sample Laura Dern’s “Enlightened,” now would be a good time, as the dark comedic poem of a series embarks on its second season tonight (1/13) –...
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HBO’s Girls: The Millennial Dating Scene
The Sunday Styles section of yesterday’s New York Times featured an article entitled, “The End of Courtship,” about the complicated dating scene that millennials are navigating as they struggle to find...
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‘Game of Thrones’, a Love-Hate Affair
Diana Rigg as Queen of Thorns photo HBO Game of Thrones, Season 3, is seven days away, and already you can hear it coming. The HBO fantasy drama series is at the center of a pop culture tornado...
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10 Things to Know Before Watching Michael Douglas Dazzle in ‘Behind the...
Click here to view the embedded video. Courtesy Talk Radio News Service Flickr photostream At last — Michael Douglas as Liberace, on HBO. The highly touted, much-anticipated Behind the Candelabra, from...
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HBO’s ‘Love, Marilyn’ Adds Little to the Legend
Love, Marilyn airs Monday at 9 p.m. on HBO.Photo: Milton H. Greene ©2012 www.archiveimages.com/courtesy of HBO “The Ancient Greeks had Oedipus. We have Marilyn.” At first, that statement made by a...
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James Gandolfini: How He Compared to Tony Soprano
For a murderous thug who made his living through extortion, theft and corruption, Tony Soprano was a remarkably easy guy to sympathize with. We felt the pain of his unhappy upbringing, of his...
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‘The Newsroom’: Love It or Leave It, It’s Back
Jeff Daniels on HBO’s The Newsroom, which returns Sunday night at 10. Courtesy HBO. There was a moment in last season’s finale of HBO’s The Newsroom when Will McAvoy, the bombastic TV anchorman played...
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HBO Movie ‘Clear History’ is Comic Gold
Kate Hudson, Larry David and Jon Hamm in HBO’s Clear History. Curb Your Enthusiasm fans, take note: Larry David’s hysterical HBO improvised comedy is back, only — and try to follow me here — it’s got a...
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The Gummer Girls Follow Mom Into Acting
Grace Gummer plays a reporter in ‘The Newsroom.’ If you’ve been watching The Newsroom on HBO this season, you may have noticed something familiar about the young actress who plays Hallie Shea, one of...
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Is There Comedy in Geriatric Care? Yes, on HBO
Laurie Metcalf (left) and Alex Borstein (right) star in HBO’s new series Getting On. Getting On, HBO’s off-kilter new comedy series, is about nurses and doctors working in a female geriatric care unit...
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Bryan Cranston to Reprise LBJ Role in TV Movie
Many know him as Walter White – the high school chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin of Breaking Bad - but actor Bryan Cranston will be making his way back to television as President Lyndon B. Johnson...
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Boomer History: Iran Hostages ... Berlin Wall Falls
Notable events from our shared experience Democrat Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd president — and first boomer president — of the United States on Nov. 3, 1992. Republican George W. Bush becomes the...
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Debi Mazar on Beauty, Diet and Life at 50
“Glamorous” and “gritty” may not go together naturally, but they seem like perfectly paired adjectives when it comes to describing actress, mother, wife, chef and all-around workaholic Debi Mazar...
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10 Things to Know Before Watching Michael Douglas Dazzle in ‘Behind the...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAC1yiIROw&w=560&h=315 Courtesy Talk Radio News Service Flickr photostream At last – Michael Douglas as Liberace, on HBO. The highly touted, much-anticipated...
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HBO’s ‘Love, Marilyn’ Adds Little to the Legend
Love, Marilyn airs Monday at 9 p.m. on HBO.Photo: Milton H. Greene ©2012 www.archiveimages.com/courtesy of HBO “The Ancient Greeks had Oedipus. We have Marilyn.” At first, that statement made by a...
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James Gandolfini: How He Compared to Tony Soprano
For a murderous thug who made his living through extortion, theft and corruption, Tony Soprano was a remarkably easy guy to sympathize with. We felt the pain of his unhappy upbringing, of his...
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‘The Newsroom’: Love It or Leave It, It’s Back
Jeff Daniels on HBO’s The Newsroom, which returns Sunday night at 10. Courtesy HBO. There was a moment in last season’s finale of HBO’s The Newsroom when Will McAvoy, the bombastic TV anchorman played...
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HBO Movie ‘Clear History’ is Comic Gold
Kate Hudson, Larry David and Jon Hamm in HBO’s Clear History. Curb Your Enthusiasm fans, take note: Larry David’s hysterical HBO improvised comedy is back, only – and try to follow me here – it’s got a...
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