Welcome to the late-night landscape, Jimmy Fallon
McClatchy Newspapers
2/27/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - The most daunting competitor facing Jimmy Fallon, who takes over "Late Night" on Monday with zero hosting experience and loads of public skepticism, isn't Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel or even the ghost of Conan O'Brien. It's sleepiness.
Fallon will certainly ...
Confessions of an addict: A power higher than any couch potato has mandated the switch to digital TV; the time has come to give in
McClatchy Newspapers
2/24/2009, by Melissa Dribben
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Hello. My name is Melissa and I am a television addict. For more than 30 years, I kept my addiction under control. I never subscribed to cable. I resisted my children's pleas for sets that did not have gray stripes quivering across the screen and a constant ...
Viewers tend to stick with the predictable
McClatchy Newspapers
2/23/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - On the surface, Gregory House and Patrick Jane have little in common. One is a pill-popping, emotionally crippled doctor with the worst bedside manner since Typhoid Mary. The other is a sly, borderline-psychic investigator who takes unabashed pleasure in watching ...
Sharon Small uses acting to overcome her natural shyness
McClatchy Newspapers
2/23/2009, by Luaine Lee
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - Every woman has her peak years. But during actress Sharon Small's she was cast as a fat, ugly woman on a now-famous British TV series. "The director said, 'OK, Sharon, how do you feel about wearing no makeup, having a terrible haircut and wearing terrible ...
Sharing an ‘Untold Story': Exploring rich history of overlooked New Orleans neighborhood
McClatchy Newspapers
2/23/2009, by Chuck Barney
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - A few years ago, Bay Area filmmaker Dawn Logsdon learned a valuable double-barreled lesson: (1) Sometimes the best ideas for a documentary project can be found right in your former backyard, and (2) Never overlook the teachings of a parent. The result of that knowledge is ...
‘Taking Chance,' premiering Saturday on HBO
McClatchy Newspapers
2/17/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Concise and deeply moving, "Taking Chance" tells a true story that has been repeated often but rarely depicted. The HBO movie, which premieres at 8 p.m. EST Saturday, explains how the military treats war dead with great care and respect. The film also dramatizes how the ...
‘Taking Chance,' premiering Saturday on HBO
McClatchy Newspapers
2/16/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Movies are memorable because of mighty moments. These are the scenes that pull us so close to the story we feel like we have crossed that invisible threshold that normally relegates us to being merely observers. These mighty moments are at their best when they are so ...
A painful round leads ‘American Idol' to the semifinals
McClatchy Newspapers
2/16/2009, by Rick Kushman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - If you needed any reminder that "American Idol" is, first and most, a television show with a singing contest, rather than just the contest, the round of 36 semifinalists starting Tuesday should do it for you. Part of "Idol's" success is that it's very tightly _ and ...
Katherine Heigl's exit strategy
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009, by Nara Schoenberg
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Is Katherine Heigl really leaving "Grey's Anatomy?" A report to that effect from a co-star is as yet unconfirmed, but we're going to go out on a limb here and saying, yes, yes, a thousand times yes! In recent years, the actress hasn't exactly been subtle about her disdain ...
‘Oliver Twist,' airing Sunday and Feb. 22 on PBS' ‘Masterpiece'
McClatchy Newspapers
2/12/2009, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Oliver Twist has one of the greatest hard-knock lives in literature. The 10-year-old lost his mother at birth, toils in the workhouse and falls in with thieves. He is sold, shot, kidnapped, marked for murder and the victim of cruel justice and bad medicine. Take away ...
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