This season’s shows are taking their titles from closing-credits musical selections, and this week’s, fittingly, is “Authority Always Wins.” Bill and Eric are not only captured, but firmly and deviously controlled, by the Authority – as embodied by tough leader Roman (Christopher Meloni) and the mysterious Salome (another wonderful new addition, played by Valentina Cervi).

2012

Jun

GIRLS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: There’s enough change and growth in this season finale to make it satisfying, and more than enough unexpected events to make it truly surprising. For a full preview, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader assessment HERE.

2012

Jun

1993: 'EYE TO EYE WITH CONNIE CHUNG' PREMIERES By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1993, Just two weeks after joining Dan Rather as co-anchor of The CBS Evening News, Connie Chung's one-hour newsmagazine show, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, made its debut. Produced by CBS News' Andrew Heyward, the Thursday night program also featured regular reports by Bernard Goldberg, Edie Magnus and Russ Mitchell.Chung became caught up in a media firestorm following her January 5, 1995 Eye to Eye interview with Kathleen Gingrich — mother of then-Speaker of th

2012

Jun

1961: DAVE GARROWAY'S LAST DAY ON 'TODAY' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1961 marked the final appearance of Dave Garroway on the Todayshow, one of television's most enduring programs. A World War II vet and seasoned radio reporter, Garroway became one of television's first TV personalities as host of an experimental variety show, Garroway at Large, broadcast from Chicago. In 1952, Garroway began hosting the newly-created morning show, Today, the brainchild of NBC president and television pioneer Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Nicknamed "The Communicator" fo

2012

Jun

2012 U.S. OPEN GOLF By David Bianculli

Every major golf tournament for years now, both fans and detractors of Tiger Woods have kept an eye on early-round play with an eye on one question: Is this the year, and the major, for Woods to go all the way again? After Thursday’s second-place finish, he seemed well poised to make a run – but this is Saturday, the day when, for professional golfers, dreams and reality have a way of colliding, usually around the back nine.

2012

Jun

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION By David Bianculli

One of the classic movies of its time, this 1994 drama, based on a Stephen King story, stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in roles that will rank among their best no matter what else they achieve. What performances. What images. And, oh, what music!

2012

Jun

STAR TREK By David Bianculli

This 2009 movie by J.J. Abrams successfully rebooted the Star Trek franchise for yet another generation. Chris Pine plays a young James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto plays young Spock, and this prequel shows us not only how those two met, but how the Enterprise came under Kirk’s command. Briskly paced, imaginatively written – and, to its credit, faced with humor throughout, though nothing campy or self-mocking.

2012

Jun

ANONYMOUS By David Bianculli

When I was a young teen, I fantasized about changing my name legally to “Anonymous,” just so I could claim unpaid royalties from various poetry collections. Yep. That was one of my early get-rich schemes, which explains why I’m still poor. But that idea was no more preposterous than the plot of this 2011 movie, which ascribes the works of William Shakespeare to a different scribe altogether. Rhys Ifans stars. Watch for entertainment value, but, prithee, don’t take it seri

2012

Jun

KRAMER VS. KRAMER By David Bianculli

From 1979, this finely detailed character study stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as a couple on the verge of divorce. She leaves him and their young son, then resurfaces with a quest to get legal custody. In between, the movie is mostly about Hoffman’s single dad becoming a responsible, attentive father – and dealing with his son even when the boy is testing limits, as he does, memorably, with a small tub of ice cream. Justin Henry plays young Billy.

2012

Jun

NEW BBC AMERICA SERIES THIS SUMMER: COPPER By Eric Gould

Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana have produced a couple of memorable television series together, Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz. (You can add Diner, Rain Man and Bugsy to Levinson's credits, and St. Elsewhere to Fontana's.) The two are at it again with Copper, a period piece set in the notorious Five Corners of Civil War-era New York City. Premiering on Sunday, August 19, 9 p.m. ET, the crime-drama will be the first sole-produced series for BBC America...

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