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TV Review: Give Some Love to TBS’s “The Pete Holmes Show”

March 2, 2014
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Along with the absence of a desk, the fact that guests aren’t coming on in order to plug their latest whatever sets “The Pete Holmes Shows” apart from typical late-night fare.

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Music Remembrance: February 9th, 1964 — “Hey, You Kids Want Tickets to See the Beatles?”

February 6, 2014
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Arts Fuse writer Tim Jackson recalls the impact of being in the audience of the “Ed Sullivan Show” fifty years ago.

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TV Review: HBO’s “Looking” — Gay Life as Sweet and Sincerely Humanist

January 22, 2014
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Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.

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TV Review: HBO’s “True Detective” — A Work in Progress

January 8, 2014
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Nic Pizzolatto’s scripts for “True Detective” have their moments but, self-consciously literary, they also are painfully overwritten.

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TV/DVD Commentary: Loving “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”

January 2, 2014
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Although there are bumps on the way from the brilliant first season to the uneven fourth season, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis” stands as a clever, thought-provoking and joyful creation – a pleasure that’s anything but guilty.

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Television Review: “Six by Sondheim” on HBO — A Fabulous Musical Showcase

December 10, 2013
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It’s possible to argue with several of Stephen Sondheim’s selections. Are all of these his best achievements? Yet it hardly matters, because the composer’s tales of his artistic life, culled from probably a dozen interviews, are completely fascinating.

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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Ends Well — “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”

September 30, 2013
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Over the past five years of Breaking Bad, the chemistry of fate has run its course.

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Television Review: “Glickman” — A Rousing Sports Biography

August 26, 2013
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Before he was a broadcaster, Mary Glickman was one heck of an athlete, a youthful hero in New York known as “the Jewish Red Grange.”

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TV Feature: Finding “The Inner Light” at the Star Trek Convention

June 14, 2013
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Google the favorite Star Trek episodes of all time and “The Inner Light” is on just about every top ten list.

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TV News: “Mad Men” and the Mystique of the Sixties

June 11, 2013
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“Mad Men” gets all manner of undeserved attention. Yet I attend to it.

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