Tuesday TV: Bristol’s Back on Reality TV
It may not have been fair for Bristol Palin to be thrust into the limelight because of her mother’s political ambition. It was certainly bad timing that she was a…
The Genius of ‘The Glass House’
If it were a crime for one network to borrow the premise of another’s hit show, half of TV would go dark. CBS’ “Big Brother” tried to press the issue…
Sex and ‘The Push Girls’
Not often I’m in a plush ballroom facing four beautiful women, one of which volunteers not five minutes into the conversation: “I can have sex.” Actually, Angela Rockwood is explaining…
The dB’s Return
“Here’s another hit,” Peter Holsapple said in the middle of The dB’s show at the Iota in Arlington last week. You could practically hear the ironic quote marks around the…
Monday TV: Mixed Feelings on Dogs, ‘Glass House’
The second unusual documentary from HBO in as many weeks, “One Nation Under Dog” (HBO, 9 p.m.) can’t quite decide what it wants to say about American’s obsession with canines.…
Sunday TV: ‘Falling Skies’ returns, ‘Killing’ Solved
A year ago, it seemed that of the big new Steven Spielberg projects on TV, the big budget broadcast TV dinosaur drama was the big deal, while the lowly alien…
Saturday TV: ‘Blue Lagoon’ Bests ‘Cupcake’
It’s almost a right of passage, albeit a creepy one, that Hollywood thinks it needs to remark “The Blue Lagoon” every generation, so young people can be introduced to the…
Friday TV: Highwire Over Niagara
Walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls has been banned for 175 years. But because the economy is so bad up there, they decided to let one of the Flying Wallendas…
A Sanitized ’41’ for His Birthday
Jerry Weintraub produced his bio film on George H.W. Bush, “41” (HBO, 9 p.m.) as if it were a bouquet. In fact, it was to have been screened for his…
Also on Thursday: The Early Days of AIDS in San Francisco
The epidemic of deaths among gay men in the early 80s was a frightening, unexplained scourge on the burgeoning community of San Francisco, where more than 1,000 people were dying…