A couple of months ago, while promoting her superb TV-movie Temple Grandin on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, star Claire Danes happened to mention that her father-in-law is a professor of philosophy specializing in moral particularism.
Well, Ferguson’s reaction was as though he’d just discovered a new world he wanted to explore immediately. He asked Danes if she thought this man, Jonathan Dancy, would appear on his show. She said she’d ask.
True to his desire, READ FULL STORY »
The canned quality of Real American Stories — tales of uplift about people who help others — seemed designed to showcase Sarah Palin as a good reader of the TV-studio teleprompter and a sympathetic listener to guests in the studio.
Palin introduced and narrated brief segments about good Americans such as wealthy folks who donate money to good causes; a heroic Marine; a family with a son coping with cerebral palsy. These people were portrayed READ FULL STORY »
From the 1980s-style graphics and Moog-synthesizer music replacing the usual ones, to the squishy-hair wig on John Noble as a 1985 Walter Bishop, last night’s Fringe return was not just full of revelations — it was a total gas, a trip, and cheerfully dark mind-blower. The episode entitled “Peter,” which didn’t include Joshua Jackson but rather READ FULL STORY »
The announcement yesterday that Craig Ferguson had won a prestigious Peabody Award for “excellence in broadcasting” came as a big surprise to… Craig Ferguson. “I didn’t know I’d been nominated,” Ferguson told me today. Speaking of the prize that’s been given to TV legends ranging from READ FULL STORY »
