May 12 2013
ll dysfunctional things must come to an end, and so it is with the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. NBC’s “The Office,” which made stars of Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, John Krasinski, Mindy Kaling, Jenna Fischer and Steve Carell, ends its nine-season run this Thursday with a one-hour finale, preceded...
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May 11 2013
When filmmaker and actor Christopher Guest researched his family history following the death of his father, he discovered a copy of a diary written by one of his English ancestors, in 1797. The man wrote that he had studied ventriloquism in London as a child, and once performed a puppet...
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May 04 2013
On the second season of the CBS hit “Person of Interest,” John Reese and Harold Finch — played by Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, respectively — have proceeded with their life-saving missions while several criminal organizations, as well as a few separate rogue characters, have thrown obstacles their way at every turn...
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Apr 20 2013
For the role of Daniel Holden, a man released from solitary confinement after 19 years for a crime he may or may not have committed, in “Rectify,” the new Sundance Channel drama premiering tomorrow night at 10, Canadian/Australian actor Aden Young faced the ultimate challenge: portraying a man returning...
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Mar 30 2013
About five years ago, veteran showrunner Claudia Lonow was at her parents’ annual Academy Awards party when a distinguished film- industry veteran — who shall remain nameless — accepted a lifetime achievement award. Lonow looked to her mom to express her excitement at the scene, and received a response she did not...
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Mar 24 2013
On CBS’s top-rated comedy “The Big Bang Theory,” Melissa Rauch plays biologist Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz, wife of Simon Helberg’s Howard Wolowitz, and beleaguered daughter-in-law of Howard’s grating, never-seen mother.
As such, Rauch is often challenged with doing two voices quite different from her own. There’s Bernadette’s...
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Feb 24 2013
Kevin Michael Connolly, 27, was born without legs. He gets around on a skateboard and as he uses his strong arms to propel himself into a chair at the New York offices of the Travel Channel, it becomes less surprising by the minute that this gregarious, fast-talking young man is...
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Feb 24 2013
In the ’70s, “Partridge Family” star David Cassidy was the world’s biggest pop star while secretly hating the madness of celebrity. Now Cassidy, 62, gets to experience a different kind of madness — as a murder victim on “CSI” this Wednesday. Cassidy spoke to The Post about “CSI,” and his...
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Feb 09 2013
When actor Anthony Edwards first saw the script for his new series “Zero Hour,” a complex, conspiracy-based action thriller that premieres Thursday night on ABC, it reminded him of another drama he’s somewhat familiar with.
“When we first did ‘ER,’ the thinking was, there’s no way people are...
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Jan 26 2013
Keri Russell lies half-naked on a bed at a soundstage in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Dressed in a black bra and stockings, her pencil skirt hiked up above her waist, she’s smiling, which is surprising given that in the past half hour, she’s been spanked on her...
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