Television

Katie Holmes as Jackie O. on the cover of last week’s New York Magazine

August 23, 2010
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Brilliant idea: Katie Holmes reenacting paparazzo Ron Galella‘s iconic shot of Jackie O. crossing the street. Katie looks (dare I say it?) even more gorgeous than the original, and it’s a great way to usher in Fall Fashion.

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"Mad Men" writer thinks today’s young women are all a bunch of Bettys

October 9, 2008
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Image courtesy of AMC.com While waiting for Battlestar Galactica to return in January, I’ve become obsessed with another cable show that, on the surface, also appears to take place in a completely alien universe. Mad Men is set on the Madison Avenue of the early 1960′s, and the creator, designers and producers go to impressive [...]

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Breasts are back on the boob tube

December 3, 2007
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Image courtesy of NBC.com I’ve been noticing a lot of unabashed, in-your-face cleavage on prime-time television lately. There’s Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in her unbuttoned button-downs and plunging V-neck sweaters on “30 Rock“; Kristin Chenoweth and Anna Friel in low-cut frocks and push-up bras on “Pushing Daisies” (Friel recently acknowledged this to “People” magazine: [...]

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Pushing Daisies: Til death (or over-quirk) do us part

November 6, 2007

Nerve’s recent review of Pushing Daisies totally nails this show’s seductive power. Writer Bryan Christian describes Daisies as a “whimsical, deeply stylized, romantic murder-mystery fairy tale” that “took the piss out of the deathly serious murder porn that litters the network landscape” yet still “hews close to the classic screwball tropes.” Think “Law and Order” [...]

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How I Met Your Mother recap: Marshall and Lily 4-eva

October 29, 2007
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Photo courtesy of Fox Broadcasting Co., 2007, as seen on TV.com I’ve always admired How I Met Your Mother’s depiction of romantic relationships between twenty-something urban professionals. The newlyweds Marshall and Lily Eriksen (Jason Segel and Alyson Hannigan) are goofy, tender, loving, easily amused by one another, and easily distracted from one another — just [...]

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When fathers attack

April 26, 2007

As the world knows by now, a voicemail message of Baldwin berating his 11-year old daughter had been leaked to the press. The FOX commentators could barely contain their glee at catching Baldwin in full-on bad-parent mode. “Can you imagine what hearing something like that would do to a young girl?!” they asked. Actually, I can.

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Nielsen, give me a People Meter! (part two)

February 9, 2007

I feel like deep-sixing Studio 60 from my Don’t Miss List. Ever since the show took that wacky double-episode detour to Nevada, I just haven’t been interested. I don’t care about the characters nearly as much as they care about themselves, and the subplots are lame. Then we had this week’s episode, with Cal hunting [...]

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Liz Lemon stole a baby

January 4, 2007

And she stole the show. TIna Fey was great on “30 Rock” tonight — I’ve missed that show! The only reason I’m happy that Christmas is over is that my shows can finally return to TV. Kerry had me watching “Battlestar Galactica” during the network holiday hiatus. Out of the 5 million people that have [...]

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The funniest episode of the season

November 20, 2006

My apologies. I haven’t Strip-Rocked in a while because I’ve been recovering from the debilitating laugh-attack brought on by last week’s “30 Rock.” Oh man, the “Jack-tor” episode was funny stuff. I haven’t cackled like that since watching season one of “The Office” (the British version). You know, I thought Tracy Morgan/Jordan was the comedy [...]

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Studio 60: Out of sight, out of mind?

November 5, 2006

I just had a chance to watch the November 1 episode of 30 Rock (“Jack the Writer”), in which The Girlie Show crew is thwarted by both Liz’s boss, Jack Donnaghy (who insists on sitting in on the brainstorming meetings, distracting the writers), and Liz’s assistant, Cerie (who insists on wearing ridiculously slutty clothes to [...]

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