- April 17, 2006
- Missions Accomplished
If the public is wary of the real-life war, why are viewers eating up shows about a gung-ho military?
- April 17, 2006
- Female Lead: Maria Bello
A Q&A with The Sisters actress.
- April 10, 2006 | Feature
- City Slicker: Fernando Meirelles
Director Fernando Meirelles' invigorating Brazilian TV series, City of Men, based on City of God (sort of), is premiering this week.
- April 3, 2006 | Arts
- Springtime for the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
Ah, spring—is there any season more climatically connected with expectations, both rising and dashed?
- April 3, 2006 | Features
- Up With Grups*
He owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn’t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won’t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap.
- April 3, 2006 | Feature
- Blythe Danner’s real (Gwyneth) and pretend (vodka) motherhood.
When Blythe Danner says she’s been busy of late entertaining “a house full of family,” you might remember that her family includes an A-list movie actress, an internationally famous rock star, and a toddler with perhaps the most widely ridiculed name in the Western world.
- March 13, 2006
- Cyndi Lauper: The Remix
An eighties icon finally makes it to Broadway.
- March 13, 2006 | Arts
- Beware the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
ith the Oscars race finally over, we can stop looking backward at 2005 and get back to unreasonably inflating our expectations for what’s coming up this year. Like V for Vendetta, which shook off bad karma (the film’s fall release was delayed after the London bombings) to arrive as this season’s most anticipated film.
- March 6, 2006 | Feature
- The Good Guy: Dennis Haysbert
Never fear, America: Dennis Haysbert is back in charge. The assassination of his character on 24, President David Palmer, was a shocker, but on March 7, Haysbert returns to TV as the no-bullspit special-forces commander, Jonas Blane, on CBS’s The Unit.
- February 27, 2006 | Feature
- The Gone Show
Why networks give new series a quick hook.

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