The supermodels sharing insights in HBO's About Face are hardly Model Ts, but are still far removed from their days as A-list, pouty-lipped clothes mares...

2012

Jul

OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY WAS A DUD By Ed Bark

Two of our critics had wildly different reactions to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Ed Bark, for example, was disappointed, and says it was "bungled"...

2012

Jul

'CBS THIS MORNING' NAMES NEW HOST By Ed Bark

CBS This Morning taps chief White House Correspondent Norah O'Donnell to replace co-host Erica Hill...

2012

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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JIM BELL SETS STAGE FOR SUMMER GAMES By Ed Bark

Given the enormous technical challenges ahead for NBC, you'd like to think that Thursday's teleconference with Olympics executive producer Jim Bell will be remembered as only an irksome glitch and not a bad omen...

2012

Jul

THREE WOMEN LOOK FOR LOVE ON CBS'S NEW REALITY OFFERING, '3' By Ed Bark

CBS's 3: Yet another "journey of the heart" reality offering with three women looking for made-for-TV love...

2012

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REMEMBERING SHERMAN HEMSLEY By Ed Bark

Sherman Hemsley, the broadly comic actor whose inimitable rants made The Jeffersons one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid '70s to mid '80s, died Tuesday at age 74...

2012

Jul

ONCE AGAIN, NEWS OUTLETS' RUSH TO BE FIRST HAS CONSEQUENCES By Ed Bark

Major lapses in both taste and reporting inevitably follow the mass shootings that are becoming all too common in this country...

2012

Jul

EMMY NOMS GO TO TV FAVES AND SOME NOTABLE NEWCOMERS By Ed Bark

A batch of usual suspects — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, 30 Rock — again deservingly had their say while newcomers American Horror Story, Homeland, Girls and Hatfields & McCoys also broke through in a big way...

2012

Jul

USA'S 'POLITICAL ANIMALS' RE-IMAGINES BILL AND HILL By Ed Bark

The Kennedys have been lionized and scandalized in virtually every way imaginable at this point. So why not take the Clintons for a small-screen spin?

2012

Jul

STEVEN TYLER, J. LO EXIT 'IDOL' By Ed Bark

In back-to-back announcements, American Idol judges Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez announce they are leaving the long-running competition show...

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