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“He’s a bully, is what he is.”
June 28, 2007 – 12:24 AM | 10 Comments

“Jack McGee Without Pity.”

McGee says that Leary, who declined requests to be interviewed for this piece, cultivates a public image as a bold, blunt, hands-on actor-writer-producer who loves collaboration, but is actually an insecure, controlling …

Brothers & Sisters: “An Act Of Will”
June 21, 2007 – 9:56 AM | No Comment

“Will Power Trip”:

Joe passive-aggressives that he thought “the whole point of giving up the big corporate job for the family business was” — he nods after the kids — “you know.” Well, yeah. Couldn’t have …

“It’s Time To Play…Pass The Buck”
June 12, 2007 – 9:37 PM | 12 Comments

Prospective Replacements For Bob Barker On The Price Is Right:

Bob Vila
PROS: Hiring another dude named Bob could ease the transition for announcer Burton Richardson; Vila’s home-renovation expertise is handy for contestants unsure of how …

Brothers & Sisters: “Patriarchy”
June 6, 2007 – 4:56 PM | 4 Comments

“Family Values”:

You know that scene in Zoolander when they introduce David Bowie to judge the walk-off, and they freeze-frame on him with a subtitle reading “David Bowie” and a chord from “Let’s Dance”? This is …

Mondo Extras — MTV Movie Awards Special: “Movie Awards On Other Networks”
June 1, 2007 – 11:44 AM | No Comment

“If PBS Had A Movie-Awards Gala…”

A star-studded, faintly mothball-scented evening of battles and ball gowns, the Hissies — hosted by Doris Kearns Goodwin, who will allegedly write her own material — celebrate the epic stories …

And Sisto was his name-o
June 1, 2007 – 8:08 AM | 16 Comments

Just read in my Cynopsis.com daily bulletin that Jeremy Sisto is joining the cast of Law & Order next season. Rock! I’m mostly happy that the attempt on L&O life via dumping it into a …

Brothers and Sisters: “Favorite Son”
May 17, 2007 – 4:42 PM | No Comment

“On the plus side: extremely tiny and cute baby hat!”

At one point the reporter mentions Robert ushering his POWs to safety, but listening to it again, for some reason I heard “ushering your BMWs to …

Ask The Readers
May 11, 2007 – 10:03 AM | 95 Comments

Sorry for the paucity of Vines this week; I’ve been putting out fires elsewhere and just haven’t gotten it together. (One of those “fires” is actually something fun: an interview with Jack Coleman, Heroes‘s “HRG,” …

Brothers and Sisters: “Grapes of Wrath”
May 10, 2007 – 12:25 AM | 10 Comments

Holly’s incredulity switches to anger as she snaps that Rebecca “could have been in a ditch, or anywhere,” and can I just ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because …

“Where have all the viewers gone?”
May 9, 2007 – 12:31 PM | 40 Comments

It’s kind of insane to me that anyone is trying to pin the slump in TV ratings on Daylight Savings Time, but evidently this is considered a workable theory. The Wurtzel fellow quoted in the …