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May 9, 2012Wysteria Lane is off the map--in a bad way--as of this Sunday, when the Desperate Housewives divorce themselves from the reality of having a TV series.
It's the finale.
And Felicity Huffman (who has won awards for playing Lynette for eight years) spoke to Parade about the big kissoff:
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January 29, 2012via @NYCMayorsOfficeThough much of the real-life drama in the city this past week was worth of a couple Law & Order episodes, the mayor's office brought our attention to on-screen travails. Not only was there the Thursday Gossip Girl hoopla (xoxo, Mayor Mike), but on Tuesday the film Extremel ... More >>
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January 26, 2012Yep, that's right, folks. Mayor Mike Bloomberg's press conference today was about Gossip Girl. The Lady Gaga-kisser upped his celebrity status by standing beside members of the cast and creative team of the television show at Queen's Silvercup Studios.
Also beside him were a host of Queens electe ... More >>
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December 15, 2011Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>
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August 12, 2011The next season of Law & Order: SVU will feature an episode about an important European official visiting New York who is accused of rape. Remind you of anything? Franco Nero, an Italian actor and husband of Vanessa Redgrave, will play the ersatz Strauss-Kahn character.
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June 17, 2011We usually ignore Law & Order: Criminal Intent because it's the creepy Vincent D'Onofrio Law & Order that got banished to USA Network, but their Sunday episode just sounds too good to resist. In one of the franchise's standard "ripped from the headlines" plots the detectives investigate a cas ... More >>
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April 25, 2011Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe: Not so into rap-metal. The news that Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be ripping all those headlines about the struggles of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for an upcoming episode was notable for its lightning-quick turnaround time, and for its fictionalized tak ... More >>
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April 13, 2011From cop killer to cop actor
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February 22, 2011You know, publicists' ideas of what would make a great story.
I get 'em all day long. Pitches aimed at a catcher with a limp wrist who keeps fumbling the ball!
I just don't give a shit!
The absolute worst volleys I tend to get are:
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October 31, 2010Republican political ads run mostly during sports programming and crime dramas, while Democrats prefer talk shows and sitcoms, according to a report in Sunday's New York Times. While the most popular and bipartisan show is Dancing With the Stars, Republican ad buyers dig on Saturday Night Col ... More >>
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October 7, 2010I never thought anyone from Gossip Girl would be considered one of our premiere thesps any more than I felt Justin Bieber should sing at the Met.
But I can finally admit that in Ben Affleck's searing criminal drama The Town, Blake Lively happens to be amazing in her supporting role as a ragg ... More >>
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July 8, 2010We will never own one of these. Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>
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May 24, 2010Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>
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May 24, 2010"Sayid" (center) was pulled on stage for his eponymous ballad
Previously on Lost
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This is "the most important night of your life, the most anticipated night of human history" recap-rock band Previously on Lost announces to the sold-out crowd at Bell House. It's around 8pm ... More >>
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May 4, 2010Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill
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November 10, 2009The creators of a show: These are their stories
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August 14, 2009--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>
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July 30, 2009The Post reports that a Queens cop has been slapped with departmental charges for repeatedly helped himself to free donuts, sandwiches, and coffee at a Rockaway Dunkin' Donuts. The charges were made after an Internal Affairs investigation revealed that he went behind the counter on numerous occasion ... More >>
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July 16, 2009
Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane.
For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>
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June 9, 2009Haven't had enough of the Beales, the mother-daughter duo who were the subject of Grey Gardens the documentary, the musical, the followup documentary, and the HBO movie?
Well, have I got a weekend for you! It's one entirely devoted to Grey Gardens with no mention of anything unrelated to the glamor ... More >>
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January 14, 2009Gossip Girl author grows up
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October 31, 2006Grey Gardens proves that bad housekeeping can make good theater
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February 28, 2006TV hospital drama life unfolds to new new wave
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November 8, 2005When it comes to the abortion issue, TV shows are where they were 30 years ago.
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July 26, 2005A new series about a drug-dealing suburban homemaker kicks against conservative pricks and Christian bitches
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May 10, 2005Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship
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March 22, 2005Art
October 5, 2004ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
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April 6, 2004The Law & Order abstainer is a member of an elite squad. This is her story.
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