Our Boy Toys Must Be Goys–The Blonder, the Better
My buddy Rachel’s on the up-and-up now. But it was touch-and-go for a bit. She’s recovering from a seven-year love addiction to her ex-boyfriend, Russell. Russell is from an Irish-Catholic family. He...
View ArticleSome Enchanted Evenings: An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Is...
"An Evening With Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin." (Photo by Joan Marcus) She couldn’t make it any clearer, really: Patti LuPone would prefer that you not cry for her. And yet on the night The Observer...
View ArticleAll the 2013 Golden Globe Nominations, Right Here!
Golden Globe nom-toppers. (Various) Not too many surprises this year in the nominations, announced today, for the 2013 Golden Globe Awards. This year, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be making history as...
View ArticleEmmys Observed: Our Picks for Dramas Best Supporting Actor and Actress
Tyrion Lannister, in happier times. (PBS) Where tvDownload’s Drew and Vinnie discuss their picks for this year’s Emmys! Supporting Actors Josh Charles, The Good Wife Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones...
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 5×05: ‘Better Call Saul’
Welcome to Homeland: Ghost Protocol! Killers are stalking Carrie across the globe! Someone has compromised the Potsdam dead drop! Someone also wants Quinn dead! Someone knows all of Saul's schemes and...
View Article‘Homeland’ Season Six Premiere Recap: Fair Game
Homeland is back and it’s in Brooklyn now, baby! Carrie Mathison is working as an advocate for muslims in New York, Saul and Dar are trying to convince the new president that the CIA should exist at...
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×02: Is Saad a Ninja Turtle Villain??
Saad kind of looks like a boss in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game in that black and white gang photo. If I punch Saad enough, does he start glowing red and blinking?
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×03: Quinn’s Nightmare
Can you imagine if Carrie Mathison was your mom? You’d be trying to watch Blue’s Clues, and she’d be all stressed out, trying to take care of the strung out ex-CIA drifter who lives in her basement.
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×07: Cabin in the Woods
“Imminent Risk” is basically an exhibition of every player on 'Homeland' trying something sneaky and then having it blow up in their face.
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×09: Meth and Masturbation
I will never look at an M&M the same way ever again. Or Eminem.
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×10: You Can’t Fall Off the Middle
It’s another slow burner as 'Homeland' season 6 winds its way toward an inevitable climactic showdown between Dar Adal and well, everyone.
View Article‘Homeland’ Recap 6×11: Deplorables
When the hell is Madame President Elect Elizabeth Keane going to be inaugurated?
View ArticleIconic Composers Celebrate a Champion of Modern Classical at BAM
"Bob is not just a brilliant record company executive—he's also been a key figure in New York's cultural life."
View ArticleUPDATED: Mandy Patinkin Drops Out of ‘Great Comet’ Over Diversity Concerns
Okieriete Onaodowan, who replaced Josh Groban as Pierre, is black. Fans were mad he was being forced to 'make room' for another white actor.
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