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2012
Apr
10
 
 
Tonight’s an elimination-round installment, and four singers – not just one – will be sent home before the evening is out. One who better not be sent home? Juliet Simms. Her rendition last night of The Police’s “Roxanne” was a star-making moment. Or, at least, a star-in-the-making moment – so she’s one to watch in the weeks ahead, not to lose tonight because of fickle audience voting. Then again, the judges do have one override veto, right?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
10
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This could well be the series finale as well. Yet if you’ve been watching this series, and are looking for a sense of closure, keep your expectations low. Sarah Michelle Gellar, as twin sisters Bridget and Siobhan, is in dual jeopardy tonight, with threats that include a staged drug overdose (seen at left) and a possible drowning in the bathtub. And even if both sisters survive, what then? That’s the question. Butthere's an even better question out there: How many view
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
10
 
 
SEASON FINALE: With all the bad boys colliding in orbit around Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan – Mikelti Williamson’s Limehouse, Neal McDonough’s Quarles, Jeremy Davies’ Dickie Bennett, and Walton Goggins’ good old Boyd Crowder – is it any wonder Raylan has both guns drawn? I can’t wait for tonight’s episode. And Advance Spoiler Alert: I plan to review it tomorrow.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
10
 
 
Plan now to watch Wednesday night's "Peter O'Toole: Live From the TCM Classic Film Festival" (8 and 11:30 p.m. ET), a 2011 conversation between the accomplished actor and Robert Osborne. It's accompanied on TCM by films including The Lion in Winter (9 p.m. ET) and Lawrence of Arabia (12:30 a.m. ET). - DW
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
10
 
 
On my first of what turned out to be many summer TV critics' tours to L.A., I couldn't resist approaching the most feared and famous journalist in America...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
9
 
 
Even his own CBS network called him a "pit-bull reporter" in the first sentence of its tribute to the late, inimitable Mike Wallace...My most vivid recollection of him is as a father who talked openly of reconnecting with his likewise famous son, Chris Wallace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
9
 
 
The interplay between the judges here is better than on American Idol this season – but in both shows, it’s become increasingly arguable, even obvious, that the real winners of these shows, publicity-wise, are not the contestants or winners, but those in the judging thrones. Look at what TV has done, in two seasons, for all four judges on The Voice. And it makes me even hungrier to watch the new UK version, which features, among its quartet of celebrity judges in the red chairs, Tom
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
9
 
 
Suddenly, on tonight’s new episode, Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is saddled with an emotionally challenged 11-year-old. Good thing he’s had so much practice all these years, being House’s only loyal friend.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
9
 
 
The more you see of the original films in the Frankenstein series, the more you realize how brilliantly Mel Brooks lampooned them in his 1974 comic masterpiece – and with such a fanatical eye (and a fan's eye) for detail and authenticity. Don’t believe me? Switch between this comedy, which stars Gene Wilder, Teri Garr and Marty Feldman, and 1939’s Son of Frankenstein, which stars Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff, and is shown by TCM tonight, beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
9
 
 
In this episode, a Hollywood star shows up to help keep the Marilyn musical dream alive – and she’s played by an actual Hollywood star. She’s Uma Thurman, beginning a recurring role (which tells you she sticks around, at least for a while).