Here’s some advice that might seem odd to give to both male and female awards show nominees: Wear running shoes on the night of the ceremony. That’s right. Fast footwear would have been optimal for all of those nominated in…
Much goes on inside the Beltway, but it’s not often that a high-profile premiere of a movie or television show takes place within Wi-Fi range of the nation’s capitol. But Washington, D.C., was indeed the perfect location that pay cabler…
Blake Edwards was first successful on TV, as the creator, in 1958, of “Peter Gunn.” TV historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, in their authoritative “Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows,” write that the character of…
Don’t read any further if you want to avoid any spoilers for the upcoming Season 4 of “Downton Abbey.” If that’s the case, you’ll also have to wall yourself off for the next five months until the hit British drama…
I remember it as if it was yesterday. When I was nine-years-old I took the Greyhound bus for the first time—and took it alone–as my parents put me on the bus in Santa Monica to visit my grandfather in Oxnard,…
Even as the best in current television programming was honored in a dozen categories, it was the recognition for a show of yore that brought down the house at the 29th Annual Television Critics Association Awards at the Beverly Hilton’s…
I just saw a most wonderful, upbeat summer movie about approaching the early-autumn of our years, a must-see buddy movie that, upon initial viewing, I thought was a spectacular all-wet extravaganza. Having seen it again a day later, I’ll borrow…
Those who have followed Jon Hamm’s career closely over the past few years will know that in addition to the tall, dark, handsome, brilliant, broody and deceptive character of Don Draper that he plays on "Mad Men," Hamm has a…
Two cops. Two cultures. Two countries. Two movie stars. A rogue reporter. A mysterious killer — and a string of unsolved murders. It’s an equation that looks to equal a hit for FX. “The Bridge,” starring Diane Kruger and Demian…
A large part of the scariest, creepiest, most intensive part of my childhood can be traced to the TV shows and movies written by Richard Matheson, and I bet I’m not alone. While some of these experiences have had lifelong…