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Wish Upon a Lone Star
In hindsight, Shooting Star might have been a more fitting title for the fall schedule’s breakout network drama, given the advance blaze of glory with which Lone Star appeared on FOX, only to promptly disappear after two episodes due to dismal ratings. Originally titled Midland for the small Texas town in which it was partially set, the series centered on the double life and times of Bob Allen (played by breakout actor James Wolk). Allen is a twentysomething con man in the oil business who spends half his time as “Bob” in high-society Houston posing as husband to the daughter of one of the industry’s bigger magnates....
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Mad about Mad Men
Being a writer and producer in television, I’m not always the most dedicated or up-to-date audience member of the medium. Call me disloyal, indifferent, or even lazy, but most days after having spent hours at the office racking my brain on this or that story, outline, or script, the last thing I want to do is....
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Man of Sorrows
With a pregnant wife, a high school chemistry teacher’s salary, a sinkhole of debt, and a teenage son suffering from cerebral palsy, Walter White is pushed to the limits of composure. The focus of AMC’s original series Breaking Bad, Walt (Bryan Cranston) must also abide insolent students and....
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The Scribal Culture of Television
Tomorrow night my episode of the ill-fated NBC series, Kings, a loose adaptation of the King David story in a fictional modern (and in many ways American) context, will air. Not that this notice does any promotional good, as it will post on the Image blog a full week or so after the episode....
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Nurse Jackie: Good, But Not Yet
“Showtime’s comedies…have the whole God-Is-Dead thing down to a science,” posits a June 7 Newsday review of the new series, Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco of Sopranos fame, as well as the playwright/actor Anna Deavere Smith and Tony nominee Eve Best. Huh?...
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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