Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Great Newspaper Reads: Eddie Murphy makes #2 on my list of favorite Saturday Night Live players

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In honor of Eddie Murphy’s upcoming Netflix movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The New York Times makes him this subject of The Interview thi...
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Palm Royale season 1 has Kristen Wiig comedically busting into country-club society

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Kristen Wiig has had a disastrous run since her wildly hilarious days at Saturday Night Live. OK, Bridesmaids is a classic. And granted, sh...
Friday, May 3, 2024

How Steve Martin became (and stayed) a titan of comedy

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Steve Martin was around 10 when he realized that, even though he didn’t have a talent, he wanted to be on stage. His workaround was to learn...
Monday, April 8, 2024

This Fool gets cancelled after a less-perfect Season 2

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Just five months ago, I called Hulu’s This Fool "amazingly hilarious," TIME Magazine has called it "one of TV's funniest...
Friday, April 5, 2024

I've finally found my church: The church of The Righteous Gemstones

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Megachurchs are a little bit of a small obsession for me. They seem so weird and culty and foreign. I guess I just wasn't brought up in ...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Mountain biking in Moab, Utah is a dream come true

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I've always loved mountain biking. I don't do it anymore as much as other activities like tennis and road biking, but when I do, I a...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Becoming a cult leader led to Shoko Asahara's attack on the Tokyo subway 29 years ago today

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I just finished Netflix's six-part series How to Become a Cult Leader  fittingly today on the 29th anniversary of the 1995 Tokyo subway ...
Friday, March 8, 2024

Suits Season 1 offers a poor man's Mad Men, but an oh-so-good one

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I don't remember the last time I watched a lawyer-procedural TV series, but a lot of people had been recommending Suits and then it rec...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Looking back at Curb Your Enthusiasm's Season 7 Seinfeld reunion

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I gobbled up the first six seasons of Curb Your Enthusiam, which ran from 2000 to 2007 on HBO. For some reason, I never returned to the show...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Michael J. Fox is a real inspiration for people with Parkinson's

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I was intrigued to watch STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie on Apple TV because I wanted to learn more about his Parkinson’s, which we have been...
Monday, December 11, 2023

This Fool strikes comedy gold in South Central L.A.

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Everyone is rightfully talking about The Bear ( including me ). But they should also be talking about Hulu’s amazingly hilarious This Fool ,...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

RIP Norman Lear

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When little Norman Lear was a kid growing up in Connecticut, his dad Herman would say “stifle!” to his mom Jeanette when he didn’t like what...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Remembering 9/11 all these years later

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9/11: One Day in America was sitting on my DVR for a long time. The 2021 six-part National Geographic documentary (that they show at the 9/...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Unstable Season 1 is a very funny quick watch from Rob Lowe

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I’ve been a big fan of Rob Lowe’s podcast Literally! for a while now. He's a funny and likeable actor who has lots of famous friends an...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

RIP Matthew Perry

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Matthew Perry has sadly joined the list of celebrities with varying levels of depression who passed away in tubs, including Jim Morrison, Bo...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

The Bear - Season 2 makes the case for history's "best fictional TV show about a restaurant"

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I waited a little while to watch The Bear - Season 2 after its release. I wanted to anticipate and savor my enjoyment of the show. There pro...
Monday, October 16, 2023

RIP Suzanne Somers

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In my tweens, one of my very favorite things was ABC's Tuesday-night lineup. I watched Happy Days at 7 Central, Laverne and Shirley at 7...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Great Magazine Reads: Lost may have been a huge hit on TV but it sounds like it was truly lost behind the scenes

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Malcolm David Kelley as Walt and Harold Perrineau as Michael  If you've never watched Lost and don't want to go down that 121-episod...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Break Point serves the masses a view of the draining pro tennis tour

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I love playing tennis and watching pro tennis, so it goes to follow that I would think Break Point - Season 1 on Netflix would be great. And...
Monday, October 9, 2023

Kiernan Shipka is Totally Killer in new Halloween movie

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The people who cast the actors for Mad Men all those years ago really knew what they were doing. Exhibit A is Kiernan Shipka, who played Don...