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January 17, 2000
Double Jeopardy

Bigger even than Y2K was the great quiz-show frenzy of 1999; "NYPD Blue" returns, but do we believe Sipowicz really cares about civil rights?

May 26, 2003
My Romance

Maggie Smith plays a heart-on-sleeve novelist in the deeply felt My House in Umbria; Rachael Stirling is smashing (natch—she’s Diana Riggs’s daughter) in Tipping the Velvet.

December 2, 2002
Away We Go

With Taken, Steven Spielberg hits every cliché in the aliens-having-their-way-with-us playbook. Do we care? Nah.

March 14, 2005
Bad Cop, Worse Cop

Glenn Close joins The Shield, giving the treacherous Vic Mackey his very own Lady Macbeth.

December 11, 2000
John Leonard's TV Notes
March 22, 1999
On The Road Again

Susan Sarandon infuses HBO's adaptation of Anne Tyler's road novel "Earthly Possessions" with a comic sparkle that recalls "Thelma & Louise."

February 18, 2002
In Brief

TV Notes

October 25, 2004
Hey, Mr. Producer

A super-comprehensive Broadway documentary with talking heads living and dead. Plus: Dorothy Allison, The Office, and wormholes.

April 5, 1999
Talking Cure?

Bill Moyers journeys to Nelson Mandela's new South Africa, where the Truth and Reconciliation Commission seeks to make peace with the past.

April 11, 2005
Eyes

What makes Eyes work so well isn’t just the snappy patter, the slick camera angles, and the surveillance technology; it’s also the smarty-pants scams.

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