Category Archives: Television

Auto Focus (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Actors / Drama / Movie Reviews / Movies / Photography / Pop Culture / Reviews / Television / Video / Video Reviews

Auto Focus (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on by • Leave a comment

AUTO FOCUS (2002) Starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson, Mario Bello, Ron Leibman, Ed Begley Jr., Michael McKean, Kurt Fuller, Michael E. Rodgers, Lyle Kanouse, Christopher Neiman, Nikita Ager and Bruce Solomon.  Screenplay by Michael Gerbosi. Directed by Paul Schrader. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.   Rated R.  105 minutes. The bludgeoning death of 60s … Continue reading →

Corky Romano (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)
Comedy / Movie Reviews / Movies / Pop Culture / Reviews / Television / Video / Video Reviews

Corky Romano (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Posted on by • Leave a comment

CORKY ROMANO  (2001) Starring Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk, Peter Berg, Christopher Penn, Fred Ward, Richard Roundtree, Vincent Pastore and Fiona Hale. Screenplay by David Garrett and Jason Ward . Directed by Rob Pritts. Distributed by Touchstone Pictures.   85 minutes.   Rated PG-13. Saturday Night Live may be responsible for a revolution in television comedy, but … Continue reading →

Erik Palladino – ER Doc Talks AIDS Awareness
Actors / Interviews / Medicine / Pop Culture / Television / Video

Erik Palladino – ER Doc Talks AIDS Awareness

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Erik Palladino ER Doc Talks AIDS Awareness by Ruby Comer  My locks need to be trimmed so I swing to my neighborhood salon, Shorty’s Barber Shop, because the first Wednesday of each month they donate their day’s salary to one of my favorite AIDS organizations, LA Shanti. As my hair is foiled in bleach and baked … Continue reading →

Peter Krause- Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People
Actors / Comedy / Drama / Interviews / Pop Culture / Television / Theater / Video

Peter Krause- Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Peter Krause Helping to Make TV Safe for Smart People by Jay S. Jacobs The fall of 1998 was a tough time for television comedy. The networks tried to come up with a plan for post-Seinfeld TV, but the best they seemed to be able to come up with were tired retreads like Jesse, Two of a Kind and Maggie … Continue reading →

Alan Rafkin – The King of Nick at Nite
Classic Television / Comedy / Directors / Interviews / Literature / Pop Culture / Television / Video

Alan Rafkin – The King of Nick at Nite

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Alan Rafkin The King of Nick at Nite by Ronald Sklar “I’m still working,” sixty-eight-year-old Alan Rafkin says. “They’ll have to carry me out in a body bag.” If you had his job, they would drag you out kicking and screaming too. Alan Rafkin is a TV sitcom director. And not just another forgotten name … Continue reading →

Elwood Reid – He Didn’t Six
Drama / Interviews / Literature / Movies / Pop Culture / Sports / Television / Writing

Elwood Reid – He Didn’t Six

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Elwood Reid He Didn’t Six By Ronald Sklar Elwood Reid and I have formed the I-Love-Richard-Price Club. You already may (and should) know that Richard Price (The Wanderers, Ladies’ Man, Blood Brothers and Clockers) is the most brilliant working-class writer who ever lived. Elwood and I worship and adore him. So, kids: now you know the yin-yang of … Continue reading →

Vonda Shepard – Songs From Ally McBeal (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)
Music / Music Reviews / Pop Culture / Reviews / Singers / Television

Vonda Shepard – Songs From Ally McBeal (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Posted on by • Leave a comment

Vonda Shepard – Songs From Ally McBeal (550 Music Soundtrax) Shepard is a L.A. cult singer who’s hit career paydirt playing the musical voice of TV’s quirkiest new lawyer. She has a strong bluesy folk sound that captures the streetwise but frazzled feel of the series. The rocking out theme song “Searching My Soul” captures the … Continue reading →