- April 17, 2006
- Missions Accomplished
If the public is wary of the real-life war, why are viewers eating up shows about a gung-ho military?
- April 10, 2006
- The Mercenary Position
While classic gumshoes had a code, the vigilante Avenger simply has a price. Also: 10 Days that changed the country forever.
- April 3, 2006
- So NoTORIous
In VH1’s first scripted comedy, Tori Spelling, the poster child for affirmative action in Hollywood, stars as herself, or at least somebody not altogether unlike the Tori Spelling we’ve read about in gossip mags.
- April 3, 2006
- Liza With a �Z�
Restored, remastered, digitized up the Dolby wazoo, this one-hour Bob Fosse shake-and-bake from 1972 lets La Minnelli run around on a Broadway stage in various Halston outfits, channeling Al Jolson, Charlie Chaplin, Jimmy Durante, the Weimar Republic, and her mother.
- April 3, 2006
- Splendor and Fear and Greatness
A smart new documentary explains why Eugene O’Neill stands astride American theater, critics be damned.
- March 13, 2006
- Polygamy for Dummies
Big Love, HBO’s show about a man with three wives, needs a little less winking and a little more thinking.
- March 6, 2006
- A Soap in Wolf’s Clothing
Dick Wolf’s Conviction is like Law & Order reimagined by Darren Star. Also: The brilliant Braugher is back.
- February 27, 2006
- Thin, Rich, and Out of Control
Mrs. Harris revisits the Scarsdale diet-doc murder�a scandal that brought reality TV to the masses.
- January 23, 2006
- Fantasy Island
What �Love Monkey’ lacks.
- January 23, 2006
- Courting Alex
Alex is the opposite of Dharma. She’s a career-driven lawyer in daddy Dabney Coleman’s firm, with a cell phone instead of a life.