Television
Adam Rich, Child Star on ‘Eight Is Enough,’ Dies at 54
Adam Rich, a former child actor who starred in the hit television series “Eight Is Enough” in the 1970s and ’80s, then dropped out of show business, dealt with serious depression and later re-emerged as a commentator on mental health, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 54. Danny Deraney, Mr. […]
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‘Hunters’: David Weil on Hunting Nazis as Collective Catharsis
What were you doing before “Hunters”? When I moved out to L.A. in 2011, I was tutoring kids in Beverly Hills and the Palisades and Santa Monica from about 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., then I would drive home to my little apartment in West Hollywood and write from 10 p.m. until 4 in the […]
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Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting
You would be forgiven for suffering, at this point, from pandemic fatigue. I’m referring here not to Covid-19 but to the many plagues that have kicked off TV apocalypses in recent years. From “Station Eleven” to “12 Monkeys,” “The Walking Dead” to “The Stand,” “Y: The Last Man” to “The Last Man on Earth,” this […]
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Kevin Costner Couldn’t Get His Golden Globe Due to California Storms
When the Golden Globes returned to NBC on Tuesday night after last year’s telecast was canceled amid concerns about the organization that gives out the awards, it was an open question whether Hollywood’s biggest stars would come back. Plenty did, making the evening feel in many respects like a return to shows of the past. […]
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Golden Globes Winners 2023: The Complete List
Going into a typical awards show, the big question is, of course, who and what will win the top honors. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was not a typical awards show. The 80th Golden Globe Awards was the first edition of the annual spectacle to be on TV since an ethics, finance and diversity scandal […]
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Networks Urge Caution on a Chaotic Midterm Night
After a bitterly contested and partisan midterm election campaign, television’s top news anchors delivered a uniform message on Tuesday to Americans eager for a resolution: Check back tomorrow. Or, better yet, Thursday or Friday. Or maybe next month. Two years after a presidential race that took nearly four days to yield a winner — and […]
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Christina Applegate Pours One Out for ‘Dead to Me’
Changes to the script were rarely necessary, though there were some adjustments in blocking. Jen had to be the one to open doors so that she could lean against them, and there are fewer establishing shots of her walking into rooms. In a terrible coincidence, much of this final season, written long before Applegate received […]
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Leslie Jordan, ‘Will & Grace’ Actor and Instagram Star, Dies at 67
“I decided I was going to make a real effort to ‘butch it up’ and hide any signs that I was a Big Homo,” he wrote. “The funny thing is, I am, without a doubt, the gayest man I know.” Once he began landing roles, they came quickly, but Mr. Jordan also had substance abuse […]
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Milly Alcock and Emily Carey Say Goodbye to ‘House of the Dragon’
They anchored the earliest episodes of one of the biggest shows on television, but Milly Alcock and Emily Carey have no idea what they’re doing next — including whether or not they’ll ever return to the “Game of Thrones” prequel, “House of the Dragon,” in flashbacks or otherwise. “I don’t even know what I’m doing […]
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