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Maher’s Hard Left Turn

Scott Holleran — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:29:43 +0000

Comedian Bill Maher recently railed against Ayn Rand in his repudiation of libertarianism in an amusing if ignorant display (watch it here) that underscores that the woman who created Objectivism is right to reject libertarianism. Maher has been a left-wing libertarian and his renunciation, which is putting his comments kindly, is both a full hard [...]

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Bonnie Franklin, RIP

Scott Holleran — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:40:01 +0000

Bonnie Franklin, who played a divorced mother on a long-running CBS situation comedy, died of cancer yesterday. She was 69. Though Franklin had an established career and had been nominated for a Tony Award, her portrayal for nine seasons of a liberated woman named Ann Romano, who memorably insisted on going by Ms., which the [...]

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‘Dallas’ Season 2 Premiere

Scott Holleran — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:25:06 +0000

I watched an advance preview of TNT’s Dallas season two premiere – I previewed the rebooted series and reviewed the first season and its finale last year – which airs tomorrow night. The younger crew takes center stage, as Sue Ellen Ewing runs ahead in her campaign for governor of Texas and Bobby Ewing’s wife [...]

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TV Review: ‘Cougar Town’ on TBS

Scott Holleran — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 08:44:54 +0000

The fourth season of the Courteney Cox comedy Cougar Town switches networks, premiering on Time Warner’s TBS on January 8, 2013. I don’t remember which network it was originally on but I did check it out in the first season. I recall thinking the show was OK. It’s still OK, at least in the several [...]

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Romney Wins First Debate – and CNN Strikes Back

Scott Holleran — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:48:25 +0000

Tonight’s debate in Denver, Colorado, was an established victory for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who took on testy, pompous Democrat incumbent Barack Obama and showed Americans why he is the better candidate. In the words of Democratic political strategist James Carville, speaking on CNN, the Nothing Man looked like he didn’t even want to [...]

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Obama Administration Vs. Free Speech

Scott Holleran — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:10:41 +0000

The Obama administration, continuing its assault on free speech, attacked CNN for reporting on new information regarding an Islamic terrorist attack on September 11. A senior government official targeted the television network with an unprecedented attack on freedom of the press, which is protected in the United States – for now – by the First [...]

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TV and DVD Review: The Carol Burnett Show

Scott Holleran — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:45:47 +0000

I have mixed feelings about The Carol Burnett Show, which ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978, and a sample – a small sample – of Time Life’s new DVD collection, dubbed The Ultimate Collection ($99.95 for 25 episodes on 11 discs or $199.95 for 50 episodes on 22 discs), reinforced what I had concluded [...]

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‘Dallas’ Season Finale

Scott Holleran — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:52:39 +0000

The last two episodes of TNT’s Dallas (previewed last year here and first reviewed here) are thematically consistent with the series, a bit implausible and a dramatic send-off until next season. Sickness, sisterhood and brotherhood dominate the final two installments in this rebooted series which is based on the original 1978 CBS prime-time soap opera. [...]

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TV and DVD Review: Eight is Enough

Scott Holleran — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:58:17 +0000

ABC’s Eight is Enough (1977-1981), based on columnist Thomas W. Braden’s (from CNN’s original Crossfire) book Eight is Enough, premiered on March 15, 1977 and went up against Good Times and, later, The Jeffersons. It ran for five seasons. The first season, co-starring Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) in the pilot as first-born [...]

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Sneak Preview: ‘Dallas’ Returns to Television

Scott Holleran — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:39:03 +0000

As I wrote last year, Dallas returns to television this summer in a fast-moving, new incarnation on cable TV’s TNT. Having seen rough cuts of the first four episodes, including the pilot, I must say that it’s easy to get hooked on the oil-rich Ewing family’s drama. The original, long-running Lorimar-made series premiered in 1978 [...]

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