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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.