For those we've lost, both loved ones and those whose work we've loved. Read more
For those we've lost, both loved ones and those whose work we've loved. Read more
A new TBS comedy uses a Catholic church rec room as the setting for an alien-abduction support group. Read more
With a powerful new movie earning high praise, Mel Gibson may finally be back from the wilderness. Read more
Leonard Cohen's lovely anthem to love and pain gets a stripped-down treatment from the a cappella group. Read more
New York Magazine‘s The Cut blog heaps praise on The CW’s “Jane the Virgin” over finally showing a character having an abortion — baby gone, yay! — after not having Jane have one (which would have made for a pretty short series). If you’ve never watched, the show, an Americanized version of a Latin American telenovela, it began with a virginal Catholic Latina, Jane, who accidentally is impregnated through artificial insemination, who decides to have the baby. Romantic — and other... Read more
And you thought politics was rough. Before we’ve even had the inestimable treat of seeing the reality-deprived fever dream that appears to be HBO’s upcoming “The Young Pope,” there’s going to be a second season … probably. From The Hollywood Reporter: Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino’s first-ever TV show, The Young Pope, a production of HBO, Sky and Canal Plus starring Jude Law, has a second season in the works ahead of the first season’s international release. Wildside producer Lorenzo Mieli announced the... Read more
Back when I was a full-time entertainment journalist, I was once in a table reading for a Fox animated comedy, and a joke written into the script — not for air, just for the entertainment of the room — called Sarah Palin the c-word (you can find teeshirts from the time that say the same thing , and one comedian Tweeted it). Everyone laughed uproariously, aside from me and one of the actors (who is known to be a Christian). I... Read more
Surprisingly good (at least the pilot was) ABC comedy celebrates family and human dignity. Read more
The show's warmhearted pilot did well enough in the ratings to score a full-season order for the warmhearted family drama. Read more
Andy Richter, longtime sidekick to Conan O’Brien, currently the host of “Conan” on TBS, recently toplined Sexy Beast, the second art-themed fundraiser for Planned Parenthood L.A., held Sept. 10 at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. Richter, now married to comedian Sara Thyre, who was his longtime girlfriend (and with whom he had two more children), addressed the crowd about the couple’s abortion. From The Hollywood Reporter: “I’d like to share a story,” he began. “In 1992, my girlfriend and I were... Read more
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