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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2012
Apr
5
GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS By David Bianculli
 
 
Dolores Hart was 19 in 1957, when she starred opposite Elvis Presley in Loving You. As we learn in this charming profile by Rebecca Camissa, it was Hart’s first screen kiss. His, too. Yet after appearing in a string of iconic Sixties youth movies, including Where the Boys Are and Come Fly with Me, Hart retreated to a community of Benedictine nuns in Connecticut – and never left. Now 73, Hart looks back on her short career in Hollywood, and her much longer one devoting herself to God.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
5
INDEPENDENT LENS: "BEING ELMO" By David Bianculli
 
 
Kevin Clash is the man behind Elmo – and the voice, as well as the arm inside him. This profile lets us know the puppeteer who brings the beloved Muppet to life, in such a magical way that even when Clash is included in the camera shot, all eyes – yours as well as those with whom he’s interacting – are on Elmo.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
5
LOWER THAN AN 'A' FOR HBO'S 'GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS'? ED BARK WILL HAVE NUN OF IT... By Ed Bark
 
 
Nuns are all right by me...So that's the context of this review of "God Is The Bigger Elvis," the Oscar-nominated short documentary film charting the transformation of Dolores Hart from movie star to the current Mother Prioress in Bethlehem, Connecticut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
5
ABC'S 'SCANDAL' GOOFILY PRACTICES D.C. DAMAGE CONTROL, WHEN NOT BEING JUST PLAIN AGGRAVATING By Ed Bark
 
 
Along comes ABC's "Scandal," another aggravatingly imperfect melodrama from "Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice" creator Shonda Rhimes...with the key characters tending to speed-talk as though they're all in a Go-Kart race...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
'HOMELAND,' 'THRONES,' 'PARKS & RECREATION,' 'PORTLANDIA' AMONG THOSE WINNING PEABODY AWARDS By David Bianculli
 
 
The 71st Annual Peabody Awards committee announced their latest awards Wednesday, and among those recognized were Showtime's "Homeland," HBO's "Game of Thrones," and IFC's "Portlandia." Also nabbing highly prized Peabody's for 2011...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
SHOWTIME LAUGHS AT TRAGEDY, WHILE NBC'S 'BFF' WONDERS WHETHER TO WAX By Theresa Corigliano
 
 
On paper, who would have thought the best laughs this midseason come from a drug addict in rehab and a woman who may be dying from cancer? Showtime knows what makes us laugh...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight, the surviving Top 8 take on the music of the 1980s – with Gwen Stefani as one of the guest mentors. No Doubt, she will display a strong connection to both the music and the contestants.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
BETTY WHITE'S OFF THEIR ROCKERS By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE_ After the special sneak preview, here comes this series itself – in which Betty White plays ringleader to a band of geriatric pranksters. Will this NBC series be a worthy successor to the likes of Candid Camera? Don't know yet. More to the point: What do the playful schemers on this show have that the ones on, say, the new incarnation of MTV’s Punk’d do not? Depends.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli
 
 
Among the stories featured tonight is a Kate Snow profile of Jin Xing, a celebrated Chinese ballerina who has become a cultural icon and a national celebrity over the past 17 years. What makes this such a singular story, especially from China, is that she used to be a he – and came out, long ago, as the first person in China to admit publicly to a sex-change operation.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
4
JAWS By David Bianculli
 
 
Forget the early blooms, unseasonably warm days and chirping birds of April. For me, the first reliable sign that spring and summer are on the way, and the long winter season is over, is the first prime-time telecast of Jaws. And here it is, with more iconic scenes than in a dozen other blockbuster movies. As Quint toasts at one point: “Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women…”
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley