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John Leonard

August 2, 1999 | Television Review
$64,000 Questions

"Nightline" Talmudist Robert Krulwich asks if faster is better, if the universe is a symphony for strings, and why not clone Robert Krulwich?

July 12, 1999 | Television Review
Out of their Minds

An HBO documentary explores the sometimes hallucinatory work of six mentally ill artists, raising unsettling questions about art and madness.

June 21, 1999 | Television Review
"Beggars and Choosers"
March 29, 1999 | Television Review
Call Me Responsible

Defying the conventions of revenge tragedy, Ben Kingsley's heartsick character in 'The Confession' demands he be held accountable for his bloody vengeance.

December 10, 2001 | Television Review
In Brief

The Seventh Stream
The Day Reagan Was Shot
With the Filmmaker: Portraits by Albert Maysles
The Pretender: The Island of the Haunted
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Taking Back Our Town

September 8, 2002 | Fall Preview
These Doctors Are Always In

Despite a new dose of realism, TV doctors are still too good to be true.

March 3, 2003 | Television Review
Parlor Games

In season three, Six Feet Under will focus—always penetratingly—on relationships. The same could be said of Queer As Folk, but it remains a series devoid of surprises.

February 9, 2004 | Television Review
Election Return

A decade and a half later, Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau’s award-winning political mini-series Tanner ’88 out–West Wings The West Wing.

April 27, 1998 | Television Review
In Brief: "Painted Lady"
May 3, 1999 | Television Review
Zingin' in the Rain

From the folks who brought you last season's "Merlin" comes a "Noah's Ark" in which the Lord is a cutup and Noah's really in the drink.

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