‘How to Make It in America’ — another HBO zeitgeist winner
HBO scored long-running hits with a girls vs. boys series (“Sex and the City”) and then a boys against the girls sitcom (“Entourage’), so it would be nice if the cable network found another cash cow in...
View Article‘The Sleepy Time Gal’: Jacqueline Bisset’s lost triumph
Never quite an A-list star but someone who has worked continuously — and well — in film and television for almost 50 years, last weekend’s Golden Globes celebrant Jacqueline Bisset has always been a...
View ArticleJohn Lithgow’s unusually vigorous ‘King Lear’
I’ve heard people in the theater say that one of the biggest challenges of ‘King Lear’ is that by the time an actor is old enough to play the lost, demented king, he might not have the physical...
View Article‘Running on Empty’ resurfaces on DVD
Sidney Lumet guided the late great River Phoenix to an Oscar nomination for “Running on Empty,” the sensitive 1988 film about family and politics that the invaluable Warner Archive has just retrieved...
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