When Spike Lee went to HBO in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina to seek funding for what would become “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” the cable network was immediately interested. The two had worked together previously…
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Karen Walker has relinquished her squeaky-voiced hold on the Academy. Now that Megan Mullally’s final acceptance speech for “Will and Grace” has been heard, this could be the year for Jaime Pressly, the critics’ pick last year for her seemingly…
In HBO Family’s “The Music in Me: Children’s Recitals From Classical to Latin, Jazz to Zydeco,” a mother talks about her 10-year-old trumpeter son’s foot, which he can’t keep still when he’s playing music. The infectious half-hour program arouses a…
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“Baghdad ER” shows where it’s headed from its opening scenes, with the flash of a severed human arm as it is disposed of by medical personnel from the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. Produced by HBO and Downtown Community…
African Americans make up 13 percent of the population but account for more than 50 percent of new cases of HIV infection, a rate eight times that for whites. African American women are 23 times more likely to be diagnosed…
In anticipation of the 2007 Emmy nominations for drama series, cable shows are getting the buzz this year, from the hotly anticipated final season of “The Sopranos” to FX newcomer “The Riches.” “Cable shows are the ones that tend to…
East St. Louis is notorious as an impoverished community that has operated by its own rules for as long as anyone can remember. “It’s a forgotten community,” said KMOV-TV acting news director Genie Garner. “There’s an attitude that no one…
Horace Newcomb described the BBC/National Geographic production “Galapagos: Born of Fire” as one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen. That’s quite an accolade from the director of the Peabody Awards. The high-definition series explored the history, landscape…