Harmony Korine shot his latest movie, The Julien Chronicles , in the streets of New York with a hand-held digital video camera, without a script, and without special lighting or even props. Some would say the 25-year-old goofball auteur, who graced the world with the script of Kids and all of Gummo , is once Read More
Wednesday, April 21
Hello, Rick Springfield. You were once a popular star in the 1980's, with a soap-opera gig, pop hits like "Jessie's Girl" and the forgotten film Hard to Hold . Here's a question you should be eminently qualified to answer: Should NATO accept a settlement giving autonomy to Albanian Kosovars inside Serb-dominated Yugoslavia? Such Read MoreWednesday, April 14
Who does David Blaine think he is, being all suave and cool, wearing Dolce & Gabbana, dating Fiona Apple, club-hopping with Leo DiCaprio? He's a magician, for chrissakes. Aren't they all supposed to be geeks? Perhaps sensing that he could gain mainstream acceptance only if he isolated himself from the supermodels and hip Read MoreWednesday, April 7
Banned in America: The World's Sexiest Commercials . Um … if they're banned in America, then how can Fox air them? Just another example of a Murdochian paradox. [WNYW, 5, 9 P.M.] Thursday, April 8 Forget that Mars-Venus crap. Here's the true gender divide: Men like to watch hard-core pornographic acts of sex Read MoreWednesday, March 31
Program title of the week: Angry Beavers . [Nickelodeon, 6, 2 P.M.] Thursday, April 1 "Where should we put the Urine Guy?" a Court TV producer asked Lizz Winstead, the creator of the network's new show Snap Judgment . "Should we put him with the Marijuana Legalization Guy?" The Urine Guy, who sells Read MoreBilly Kimball is well known in the television industry for being charming and funny and all that, but he's also known for having a career that one of his friends described as "erratic." Now, after more than a dozen years spent bouncing around behind the scenes in TV comedy, he's getting a shot at the Read More
Wednesday, March 24
Don't hold your breath for new episodes of Mr. Show With Bob and David , the absurdly brilliant HBO sketch comedy series. "I don't think it's going to happen," said Bob Odenkirk, one-half of the title team. (David Cross is the other.) Thirty episodes of the show have aired since 1995, but Mr. Read MoreWednesday, March 17
Mo Rocca's gig as an on-air correspondent for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart might not pay as much as his former job, but at least he can tell his mother about it. Up until a few months ago, he was making $150 an hour editing Perfect 10: The Connoisseur's Magazine , Read MoreWednesday, March 10
From Feb. 3 through March 5, the networks were doing anything they could to get your attention–Monica and Barbara sat around and talked on an ABC stage set; Martin Short acted nuts as the Mad Hatter; Hitler was on the History Channel and sharks were in the waters of the Discovery Channel; ABC Read MoreWednesday, March 3
Monica. Barbara. 20/20 . You know you want it. [WABC, 7, 9 P.M.] Thursday, March 4 p Christopher Guest has been doing some pretty weird stuff lately. The comedy genius–who personified guitarist Nigel Tufnel in This Is Spinal Tap , and created characters for Saturday Night Live and its predecessor, The National Lampoon Read MoreWednesday, Feb. 24
After weeks of speculation, NBC News will finally air Lisa Myers' report about Juanita Broaddrick, the famous Jane Doe No. 5, on tonight's edition of Dateline NBC . Ms. Broaddrick's story, which has been reported in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post –and repeated ad infinitum by Fox News Channel, natch–is Read MoreWednesday, Feb. 17
43 Circling the city like a school bus, the MSNBC shuttle delivers on-air reporters and crew members from various spots in Manhattan to the network's massive, Buck-Rogers-meets-the- Daily Plane t studio in Secaucus, N.J. Not surprisingly, the shuttle has become a convenient satellite for office gossip. This week, a source on the MSNBC Read More
