Brotherly love
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Andy Edelstein
Newsday (MCT) - The Jonas Brothers get their own Disney Channel musical-comedy series this week _ think of "Jonas" (8 p.m. EDT Saturday) as kind of a Monkees for the 21st century, except we think Nick, Joe and Kevin play their own instruments. While ruminating on the talents of the boys, we began ...
Past is present in ‘Caprica,' a ‘Battlestar Galactica' prequel
McClatchy Newspapers
4/24/2009, by Maureen Ryan
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Caprica Two men stand and smoke on an urban street corner. One man wears black gloves, which are traditional mourning garb in his culture. "Times like these, old ways are supposed to help, I guess," the other man says.
But "Caprica" (Universal Studios Home Entertainment; 3 ...
‘King of the Hill' celebrates its 250th episode
McClatchy Newspapers
4/23/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Under different circumstances it would sound a little creepy for 42-year-old actress Pamela Adlons to brag over the telephone, "I've always felt a great responsibility to young men all over the world." But it's OK, because Adlon spends most of her professional life ...
Finale of ‘The Beast' on A&E
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Verne Gay
Newsday (MCT) - REASON TO WATCH: Patrick Swayze's last starring role? CATCHING UP: Those behind a rogue operation within the FBI _ the Outfit _ who have haunted and hounded Charles Barker (Swayze) his entire career have ensnared him in a setup involving a rooftop assassination.
WHAT THE FINALE'S ...
With ‘Caprica,' Ronald D. Moore flies ‘Battlestar Galactica' to its past
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Ronald D. Moore just spent more than half a decade working on the television series "Battlestar Galactica." The result was a four-season run on the Sci Fi Channel that took a rag-tag group of space travelers from a devastating raid by robots called Cylons to a new ...
‘Around the World for Free' relies on kindness
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by Gail Pennington
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT) - How nice are people, really? Would they help you get to the bus station? Would they help you get to Bolivia? "People are great," Alex Boylan says with conviction. "In general, they really want to help out."
Boylan tested the principle by going around the world with ...
‘Poisoned Waters' reveals dangers just beneath the surface
McClatchy Newspapers
4/17/2009, by Aaron Barnhart
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - In the half-dozen times or so I've interviewed journalist Hedrick Smith about his "Frontline" specials for PBS, I've never heard him this emotional. "We can put a slow-motion crisis on the back burner for eight weeks, eight months, maybe eight years," he says, his pitch ...
The colorful story behind ‘Grey Gardens' comes alive on HBO
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Diane Werts
Newsday (MCT) - What is, is never the whole story. What made it that way _ that's where deeper fascination lies.
Especially when it's as stranger-than-fiction bizarre as Little Edie, Big Edie and their rambling wreck of a Hamptons manse immortalized as the title character of the cult documentary ...
In ‘Grey Gardens,' Drew Barrymore as we've never seen her before
McClatchy Newspapers
4/13/2009, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - For years, you've been crushing on Drew Barrymore. The sugar-and-spice personality, the infectious giggle, the crinkly eyes, the way you want to buy her cotton candy after she kicks tail. But serious actress? Like the ones who win shiny objects, who do Shakespeare ...
Actor trades ‘House' role for White House job
McClatchy Newspapers
4/8/2009, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The end came quickly for Kal Penn's character on the popular Fox drama "House" on Monday night. Early in the episode, viewers learned that Dr. Lawrence Kutner had committed suicide. Penn left the show for the White House. He will become an associate director in the ...
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