Scarlett Johansson hosts Saturday Night Live again this week, and given the gravity of most of the movies I’ve seen her in lately, she looks READ FULL STORY »
Archive: November 2010 (21-30 of 45)
Nov 13
2010
01:06 AM ET
'Smallville' recap: 'Abandoned': Teri Hatcher, as Lois' mom, upstaged by Julian Sands, Helen Slater, and Lindsay Hartley
While this week’s episode of Smallville, titled “Abandoned,” was promoted for the guest appearance by Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane’s mother, it was other actors who dominated the hour.
Hatcher, who of course played Lois in Lois & Clark, appeared in a READ FULL STORY »
Nov 12
2010
10:46 AM ET
'Conan': His first week is over. How'd he do? Better and better...
Conan began the first week of Conan with jittery self-consciousness and an obsession with the wound that created Team Coco. Second-night guest Tom Hanks put it most succinctly when he joked that the host needed to “blame something on someone other than Jay.” But O’Brien concluded his week on Thursday night with a serene, sauntering entrance and a confident rhythm.
Conan’s beginning to use the TBS set to interact with audience members spontaneously, and engaging in more conversation and comedy bits with his greatest asset, sidekick and national treasure Andy Richter. It’s clearer than ever that READ FULL STORY »
Nov 11
2010
10:31 PM ET
Jon Stewart on 'The Rachel Maddow Show': 'We have a special place in our hearts for Fox'
Jon Stewart’s hour-long interview on The Rachel Maddow Show was remarkable for Stewart’s unprecedented openness about where he stands when he’s not making jokes.
Because Stewart respects Maddow, he took her up on her invitation to clarify the message many believed he sent out at his “Rally To Restore Sanity”: That there’s a parity of invective on MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. Stewart said his intention was “misperceived,” and what he wanted people to walk away with was READ FULL STORY »
Nov 11
2010
01:35 PM ET
'Rubicon' is cancelled by AMC: Big mistake, AMC!
AMC has announced the cancellation of Rubicon after its first season.
Here’s the network’s statement: “Rubicon gave us an opportunity to tell a rich and compelling story, and we’re proud of the series. This was not an easy decision, but we are grateful to have had the opportunity to work with such a phenomenally talented and dedicated team.”
This is bad news for READ FULL STORY »
Nov 10
2010
10:48 PM ET
Gwyneth Paltrow sings her brains out at the CMA Awards
Gwyneth Paltrow was at the CMA Awards on Wednesday night enduring Coldplay jokes from Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley because she has a movie to plug, the upcoming Country Strong.
But ABC and the CMA producers knew what they were doing when they scheduled Paltrow’s performance near the tail end of the show — there was a curiosity factor at work here: Would Paltrow be able to READ FULL STORY »
Nov 10
2010
10:10 PM ET
'Friday Night Lights' recap: Fathers days
To everyone who chided me in the Comments section last week for wondering about Buddy Garrity’s occupation, I hope you took note of “Buddy’s Bar and Grill” in this week’s Friday Night Lights — the big man, as I suspected, has moved on from selling cars. But some things remain the same: Buddy’s personal life is a wreck: His ex-wife called from 1,500 miles away to say that “Buddy, Jr.” (stinks to be him) is acting out, possibly taking drugs. Poor Buddy — he can’t even drink his own beer in peace.
Speaking of troubled fathers, Vince’s came home from prison this week. Well, “home” was a matter of contention: Having just settled in with READ FULL STORY »
Nov 10
2010
02:15 AM ET
'The Good Wife' review: Michael J. Fox gave a cleverly distracting performance
In portraying a lawyer who used his “neurological condition” to distract and sway jurors, Michael J. Fox used the fact of his Parkinson’s disease in an artfully witty way on this week’s The Good Wife. Fox’s wily Louis Canning made distracting moves and noises in the courtroom, hijacking attention away from Julianna Margulies’ Alicia and her legal team.
It was a clever idea and performance, and typical of the way The Good Wife constantly merges fiction with real life. The central case involved READ FULL STORY »
Nov 9
2010
09:12 PM ET
Keith Olbermann returns to 'Countdown,' says Jon Stewart 'hit home runs' in his jokes about... Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann began his Tuesday-night return to Countdown with a shot of his empty desk. He shuffled into view and said, “What’s new?” Back from a suspension last week by MSNBC for making political donations, Olbermann came out swinging. Among his other segments, he provided guest Michael Moore an ample platform to critique the interview Olbermann’s parent network, NBC, conducted with former president George W. Bush.
Olbermann said some have claimed this was all a publicity stunt. (For the record, I wrote that the suspension and its cessation was “nicely timed for a lot of publicity,” a dart aimed at Olbermann’s corporate masters.) “This was not a publicity stunt,” he said. Then the host added, his voice raising in mock fury, that if READ FULL STORY »
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