Wednesday TV: Meathead and His Editor
The latest edition of the "AFI Master Class: The Art of Collaboration" (TCM, 8 and 11 p.m.) features the work of director Rob Reiner and his longtime film editor Robert Leighton talking…
Tuesday TV: Women Prance in Underwear
It's not really a fashion show by any means. Network standards prevent from showing how little covering there is on most of their undergarments. So let's call "The Victoria's Secret…
Monday TV: A Bio Film on Susan Sontag
The author and intellect Susan Sontag is profiled as more of a celebrity in Nancy Kates' "Regarding Susan Sontag" (HBO, 9 p.m.), seeming slightly more interested in the many lovers…
Sunday TV: ‘Red Tent’ No Safe Shelter
You'd think from its crimson fabric, it's another holiday movie. But no, "The Red Tent" (Lifetime, 9 p.m.) is the ponderous, two-night adaptation of Anita Diamant's best-selling novel about forgotten…
Saturday TV: Guardian Angel Overload
The notion of a guardian angel helping someone who could use it at Christmas is probably best known in "It's A Wonderful Life" (NBC, 8 p.m.), the oldest movie still…
Friday TV: Sundance’s ‘One Child’
It might seem that the two night miniseries "One Child" (Sundance, 9 p.m.) may be out of sync with other holiday fare. But the story of a college woman of…
Thursday TV: Newbie in ‘Peter Pan’ Tights
It didn't matter that NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!" a year ago got mixed reviews. Enough people watched it live (even to see it fall on its face) to…
Theatre Review: ‘Mutts’ on Stage
One of the best thing I did at my last newspaper was convincing them to run “Mutts,” the comic strip by Patrick McDonnell. A simple strip about dogs and cats…
Wednesday TV: A Tree is Lit
Time to flick on the switch on "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" (NBC, 8 p.m.). The 82nd tree-lighting ceremony features an 85-foot, 90-year-old Norway spruce donated from Pennsylvania. The "Today" crew…
Tuesday TV: All About Der Bingle
The career of crooner Bing Crosby was so large -- encompassing early jazz, pop, movies and TV -- it's seems hard for it to be contained even in a two…