Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Janacek One of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, when she was well into her 60s. In everything she attempted, her vibrantly beautiful singing...
Peggy Noonan writes in the WSJ what she’s thankful for--the usual--friends, health, surviving. And then gets to this: “And after that, after gratitude for friends and family, and for those who protect us, after that something small. I love TV, and the other day it occurred to me again that we are in the middle of a second golden age of television. I feel gratitude to the largely unheralded...
Entourage College Humor does the whole HBO slate of shows if their pre-show warning cards were truthful. Sadly, Sex and the City , where a PTMYWTD: "puns that make you want to die" warning would always be appreciated, is missing, but The Entourage and The Sopranos ones are especially on-target. [ CH ] Read more posts by Lindsay Robertson Filed Under: parodies , entourage , hbo , real sex...
The idea of having a Thanksgiving Day turns out to be especially inspired when the nation is going through dark times: The attempt to search out things we’re thankful for reminds us of a lot of great stuff we take for granted. Peggy Noonan’s column is an excellent example of this. When most people talk about American culture these days, they’re grousing -- liberals about birthers...
The Sopranos is the greatest television show of all time. I know that sentence right there will be enough to start plenty of discussion, tweets, and emails, both in support of and in disagree...
Growing up, I was fascinated with the macabre, the bloody, the horrifying. I read Steven King voraciously and couldn't get enough of horror movies, even after not being able to sleep a full six months after a viewing of Children of the Corn during a sleepover in the sixth grade at Jodi Chadwick's house. Through high school and college, I devoured true crime books, was fascinated with The Manson murders...
As we get close to the the post-Thanksgiving, pre-New Year's rerun dead zone, I'm starting to do work on both my Best of 2009 list (which will be a bear, because so many good new shows debuted this year, at the same time that a lot of veteran contenders were still great), and also on a Best of the Decade package that I'm guessing will comprise multiple lists, spanning not only genre (drama/comedy/reality/etc),...
Gretchen Mol, who was last seen in last season's short-lived American television version of Life on Mars and in the feature An American Affair , will be going to HBO for the series Boardwalk Empire . She's scheduled to have a recurring role as a showgirl. The series is being produced by Martin Scorsese. Gretchen Mol was on Life on Mars with Michael Imperioli, who was also on The Sopranos on HBO and...
In today's column, I write about my visit Monday to the set of "Boardwalk Empire," HBO's upcoming drama - produced by Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, who was one of David Chase's right-hand men on "The Sopranos" - about gangsters in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition. The outdoor boardwalk set (which the story features several photos of, as well as shots of Steve Buscemi...
Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 7th Heaven: Season #9 Andy Barker, P.I.: The Complete Series Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series Dane Cook: ISolated INcident Downhill Racer: Criterion Collection Elvis Costello: Spectacle: Season #1 Farscape: The Complete Series (#3 in the DVDPS Top 40) Futurama: The Complete Collection G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra Gone With The Wind: 70th Anniversary...
It’d be a lot easier to tell you what’s not worth checking out this week than it is to point you to the gems. Among other things, this week sees the release of three of 2009’s best films: the sharp indie comedy Humpday , the moody Korean vampire romance Thirst , and the rousing summer blockbuster Star Trek . Television aficionados are well-served this week too, beginning with the...
‘The Wire’ is arguably the greatest show of all-time. It’s certainly one of my favorite shows of the decade (for whatever it’s worth, I also listed South Park, 30 Rock, The Office, 24, Lost, Arrested Development, The Shield, Family Guy, and The Sopranos on my list of 10 for the 2000’s) and someone was kind [...]
As well as being fans of David Simon's Baltimore drama, The Wire, Jo and I are massive fans of The Sopranos. In fact, it was Jo that got me into it a few years back. Anyway, because there is next to nothing good on the telly these days, or maybe just because we're interminable sad acts, we're re-watching The Sopranos all the way through and at the beginning of series two; there is an episode called...
If you want to meet with the mayor about, say, a large garage for sanitation trucks that's being built in your neighborhood, it apparently helps to have a celebrity emissary. "We couldn't get an entree into the mayor's office until [James] Gandolfini got involved, and suddenly the door was open," Richard Barrett, a painter and a community leader, told the Times this morning. But even a West...
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