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Meryl Streep was in a playful mood last night when she held court backstage before a crowd of admiring press after winning her Best Actress Oscar for "The Iron Lady." "I thought I was so old and jaded, but they call your name and you just go into sort of a -- I don't know, a white light, and it was…
"The Celebrity Apprentice" returns tonight (2/19), and, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out, "Star Trek" and gay rights icon George Takei is the season's biggest get. I called him up to find out how things went during filming. Brad Altman, George's husband since 2008 - and man in life for 21…
What a brilliant idea, to add flavor and humor to "Unforgettable" by bringing in the Queen of Deadpan herself, Jane Curtin, as mouthy medical examiner Joanne Webster. Her debut this month on the Poppy Montgomery-Dylan Walsh CBS crime procedural won her praise from both critics and fans. For us,…
If you haven't seen "Albert Nobbs" yet, Glenn Close's performance is the reason to do so. She's haunting, with the terror and yearning you can see in her eyes, those windows to the poor soul hidden beneath her carefully-controlled mask of a face. Close's remarkable achievement in portraying a woman…
We've heard the Grammy-nominated album. Now PBS' " Great Performances" is treating viewers to a look at the making of our own Tony Bennett's "Duets II" Friday night (1/27). It's the Great American Crooner with partners including Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Willie Nelson, Aretha Franklin and Faith…
Steven Tyler claims he "really wasn't okay with it" last year when he felt his slips of the lips were being hyped by the "American Idol" forces. To hear him tell it, they kept "using the occasional [bleep] and really pushing it up to the top, and saying, 'Wow, Peck's Bad Boy.'" He shrugs. "But it's…
You'd have to figure a show that features sawing and hammering and a wild man shouting through a bullhorn would not go quietly. " Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" makes its farewell appearance after nine years Friday (1/13) with a special two-hour 200th episode. It's an epic job the design team, led…
Good news for fans of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" - January is bursting forth with a plethora of programming that has the potential to, well, turn your world on with a smile. NBC's 90th Birthday Celebration for AARP's own Betty White airs Jan. 16 -- followed by a preview of Betty's…