Look up "weird" in the dictionary, and you might well find the 1962 flick The World's Greatest Sinner, a bizarre odyssey of anointedness in rock music, religion and politics that unreels Friday night...

2008

Oct

WEIRD & WILD: PAUL NEWMAN HITS THE ICE FOR 'OLD-TIME HOCKEY!' By Diane Werts

One more Paul Newman post, and I'm done. (For now, anyhow.) The late actor won Oscars, made millions for charity, and did much more to be remembered for. But I'm willing to wager he'll live longest in fans' hearts for one performance that snooty cineastes might be too inclined to discount...

2008

Oct

FLICK PICKS: TCM GANGSTERAMA! By Diane Werts

James Cagney has always been my favorite actor, but it took Orson Welles to explain why. Hearing the auteur admire him in the 1988 profile With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film, I finally understood Cagney's visceral appeal in cerebral terms...

2008

Oct

WEIRD & WILD: TART 'CHOCOLATE NEWS' By Diane Werts

If only David Alan Grier had been on the case on-air for weeks already. But maybe it's best he waited till now to unleash his new Comedy Central lampoon Chocolate News...

2008

Oct

FLICK PICKS: LOMBARD & CABLE By Diane Werts

The lady is a scamp. And a sex bomb. And a sophisticate. And a screwball queen. Carole Lombard was the whole package, which not enough movie fans realize today, since Lombard died at the age of 33 -- at the height of her Hollywood fame...

2008

Oct

WEIRD & WILD: CARTMAN VS. CHINA By Diane Werts

Obviously, Comedy Central's publicists haven't heard Lou Dobbs rant lately. Here's what their press release has to say about the semi-season return of South Park this Wednesday: "Cartman seems to be the only person aware of the gathering threat the Chinese pose to the United States..."

2008

Sep

FLICK PICKS: PAUL NEWMAN TCM MARATHON By Diane Werts

Turner Classic Movies comes through. TCM just announced a 24-hour Paul Newman marathonfor Sunday, Oct. 12 -- awhile to wait, but then we get 11 straight Newman films, including some not often seen...

2008

Sep

RETROVISION: TV LAND, DOWN THE TUBES By Diane Werts

Sorry, TV Land. It's over between you and me. And that's sad, because I loved you like mad when you launched in 1996, suffused in affection for Our TV Heritage...

2008

Sep

FLICK PICKS: PAUL NEWMAN MOVIES By Diane Werts

Paul Newman may have died Friday, but his performances will live on via TV and DVD for decades to come. The first thing we did upon hearing of his passing was check the movie listings for Newman titles scheduled to air...

2008

Sep

FLICK PICKS: GENDER-BENDERS By Diane Werts

He or she or -- ? Gender-benders fill Tuesday night on Turner Classic Movies with masquerades, impersonations and serious/silly sexual confusion...

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Diane Werts

Associate Editor

Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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