May 16 2012
Russian stud Maksim Chmerkovskiy is the official playboy of “Dancing With the Stars.”
According to Us Weekly, his latest conquest is fellow dancer Peta Murgatroyd, an Australian blond bombshell who, in her second season as a professional dancer on the show, has been paired with debonair Donald Driver.
Murgatroyd, 30...
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May 06 2012
Sherlock Holmes is such an irresistible character — brainy is the new sexy — that American producers, impressed by the success of “Sherlock” in the UK, couldn’t wait to adapt the series for American audiences. “Elementary,” whose place on the CBS fall schedule seems like a sure thing, stars Jonny Lee...
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May 03 2012
Jonathan Franzen is one unhappy novelist. Quite unexpectedly, HBO has scrapped plans to turn his admired “The Corrections” book into a dramatic series.
Production was under way in New York City with a prestigious cast that included Oscar winners Dianne Wiest and Chris Cooper as well as Ewan McGregor and...
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Apr 29 2012
1. Seinfeld and Mad About You
In “The Apartment” episode of “Mad About You,” which aired in 1992 Paul (Paul Reiser) signs over the lease of his old place to the current tenant — Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). The two guys celebrate with a cigar in the hallway. Paul asks whatever...
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Apr 17 2012
An unconfirmed story in a London newspaper saying that Dame Maggie Smith had asked “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes to write her character, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, out of the sensational PBS costume drama has sent stricken fans to Twitter and Facebook.
Comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted, “Excuse me, Dame...
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Apr 12 2012
Sherri Shepherd’s colleagues on “The View” yesterday vowed revenge after her surprise elimination from “Dancing With the Stars” Tuesday night.
Her view co-host Joy Behar was baffled by the decision of the three judges to send Shepherd packing.
“It’s not like Urkel was [Mikhail] Baryshnikov,” said Behar, referring...
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Apr 08 2012
Jake Johnson casts an inconspicuous figure on the lot at 20th Century Fox in LA. He is standing under an enormous canvas blowup of Julie Andrews in “The Sound of Music,” her arms spread against a backdrop of the Alps. Next door is the “Simpsons”’ soundstage. A huge banner of...
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Mar 25 2012
Seventeen months have passed since we last saw “Mad Men,” and the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner, is nervous. So nervous that he threatens to withhold preview DVDs from journalists if they reveal the show’s plot. So nervous that he’s giving the show’s fans (roughly 3 million...
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Mar 25 2012
The fashions on “Mad Men” tell a story as alluring as the one written on the page. So evocative and iconic are these costumes that they can take the place of dialogue. Think of Betty Draper in her “sad clown dress,” the green-and-blue polka dotted cocktail number, slumped on her...
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Mar 21 2012
The last time “Mad Men” aired was so long ago, it seems like Bush was in office. To get everyone ready for Sunday’s fifth season premiere on AMC, here’s a recap on where the show left off.
1. JOAN
Joan (Christina Hendricks) sadly realized that her marriage to...
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