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2008
Jun
30
FLICK PICKS: ROSALIND RUSSELL MONTH STARTS WITH 'HIS GIRL FRIDAY' By Diane Werts
 
 
It's great enough seeing a prime-time screening of the 1940 Cary Grant-Rosalind Russell screwball delight His Girl Friday. But this zippy newspaper tale/knockabout romance is only the first of 36 Russell films airing Wednesdays throughout July in TCM's Star of the Month salute...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
26
TRIBUTE: GEORGE CARLIN FOR KIDS By Diane Werts
 
 
While everybody's tributes to the influential comic who died last weekend mentioned his "seven dirty words" (including mine), most of us forgot about a different side of this "adult" performer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
25
WEIRD & WILD: 55,000 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL ... By Diane Werts
 
 
Give me 55,000 cans of beer and I'm there. That's what's promised by the premiere of Hillbilly Deluxe, a look at the dee-lux lifestyles of rich and famous hicks...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
23
TRIBUTE: SEVEN WORDS ABOUT THE LATE GEORGE CARLIN By Diane Werts
 
 
I could joke that those are the seven right there. (And they're not even dirty!) But why should somebody like me try joking while invoking one of the smartest comic minds (and mouths) of all time?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
23
HOT SPOT: COLDPLAY PLAYS STEWART By Diane Werts
 
 
That's not Rod, either. It's Jon...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
23
BET AWARDS: LET'S STAY TOGETHER? (OR MAYBE NOT) By Diane Werts
 
 
Any awards show that gives Al Green a lifetime achievement award is good-to-go in my book. But for how long beyond this week's Green bash should the BET Awards continue?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
20
WEIRD & WILD: 'ROLLER BOOGIE' By Diane Werts
 
 
Xanadu comes out with a special-edition DVD Tuesday, and now Roller Boogieairs commercial free! What more does a disco baby need?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
19
ON VOD: 'CAMP ROCK' PREVIEW By Diane Werts
 
 
Parental warning -- Camp Rock overkill about to commence! Remember how many times your tweens just had to watch High School Musical? And High School Musical 2?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
18
FLICK PICKS: 'POSSE' AT 15 By Diane Werts
 
 
Mario Van Peebles' western Posse was released 15 years ago as a black-cast oater featuring his director dad Melvin (Sweet Sweetback's), Isaac Hayes, Blair Underwood, "Tiny" Lister, rappers Big Daddy Kane and Tone Loc, and token white guys like Stephen Baldwin...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Jun
17
WEB TO TUBE: 'RATE MY SPACE' By Diane Werts
 
 
Can 150 million page views be wrong? We'll find out Thursday, when the much-trafficked online site Rate My Space becomes the HGTV series Rate My Space (9 p.m. ET)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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