Monday: Prison Break
Monday night brings the "Fall finale" of the Fox serial, and frankly, it can’t come soon enough. In what has become a weekly ritual, we DVR Prison Break on Mondays; watch it on Tuesdays; and then furiously email with our friends about how gloriously stupid and terrible it is for the Read More
Monday: 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s
Ok, we know it’s a lowbrow suggestion, but over the weekend we caught an hour of Vh1′s 100 Best Songs of the ’90s and remembered the pleasures of the countdown program, and the end of the millennium. Plaid shirts, Baywatch, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Marky Mark: they’ll all be Read More
In retrospect I think that I failed to understand a couple weeks back when my wife said that George Clooney was her type. My wife is good on personalities, and we were talking about actors so I started testing her on types. Spencer Tracy. “Short, angry, pugnacious.” Humphrey Bogart. “Wounded. Secretive.” Steve Martin. “Ironic, overly Read More
And so it’s Christmas in Los Angeles, 2004.
The gifts have been sent, the tips have been disbursed, and, as the rest of the country contemplates filing all those computer-rebate forms, the focus here has shifted to the Oscars.
Among the chatterati, the current conventional wisdom is that the best picture nominations will go Read More
The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded more than 70
years ago by L.B. Mayer and his fellow movie moguls, was conceived as a
guild-busting company union with an award ceremony tacked on almost as an
afterthought.
Since then, the ceremony has been inflated into the globally televised
Super Bowl of movie Read More
