Launching top-10 easy-listening hits, or crooning in a sweater on TV, Williams was a smooth sedative in a volcanic era of pop culture
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TV Tonight: The Neighbors Is Bad, But Not for the Reason You Might Think
ABC’s The Neighbors, which debuts tonight, is a sitcom about space aliens living in the suburbs. The Neighbors is a bad sitcom. But–and I think this is important to point out–The Neighbors is not a bad sitcom because it is …
Dancing with the Stars Watch: First Cut is the Deepest
Justin Bieber and Pitbull perform on the first results show of the ‘Dancing with the Stars: All Stars’ season
Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Becoming Bruce Willis and Time-Traveling to Meet His Future Self
“We spent most of our time discussing how we were going to convince the audience that Bruce and I were playing the same guy 30 years apart.”
How Star Trek: The Next Generation Changed Pop Culture Forever
As ‘The Next Generation’ turns 25, we look at the ways in which it introduced us to the future we all live in
J.K. Rowling and 6 Other Children’s Authors Who ‘Graduated’ to Adult Books
J.K. Rowling’s new novel, ‘The Casual Vacancy’, hits shelves tomorrow. How will the author’s foray into adult lit stack up against these other beloved children’s authors?
Torchlight II Review: I’ve Made a Huge Mistake
To quote George Oscar Bluth, “I’ve made a huge mistake” — I chose to play Torchlight II at the maximum difficulty setting. That would be “elite” in Torchlight II parlance, intended for the very best players.
After the Emmys: Are Posh Brits Taking Over Hollywood?
Why are so many successful actors in the U.S. actually effete, posh Brits?
Today’s Movie Trailer: Alicia Silverstone and Amy Heckerling Reunite for Vamps
Think the approaching end of Twilight means the vampire-movie trend is over? Think again. Well, sort of. As the movie’s new trailer shows, the upcoming Vamps — from writer-director Amy Heckerling and starring Alicia Silverstone, who previously worked together on the 1995 classic Clueless — takes the genre in another direction. As …
Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Songwriting for Tormented Souls
“People were saying, ‘You’re going to write songs about how much you love your son,’ and I was like two middle fingers in the air, no, I’m not.”
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“The Pollsters Are Biased” Is the New “The Reporters Are Biased”
You’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts; that political dictum was coined by the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, because he was no fun. Well, good news, folks! Now you can have your own facts! Even …
Kitchen-Sink Apocalypse: Two Off-Broadway Visions
‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ and ‘Detroit’: two domestic dramas with darker portents
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TV Tonight: Can Vegas Be The Good Wife in a Cowboy Hat?
As I say every time I write a Test Pilot preview of a new fall show over the summer, those posts are not final reviews, because the pilots of new series are often revised or recast before airing. But sometimes they’re not, nor do …